The Bridge (Free subscription) | yesterday
From the Student/Farmworker Alliance The Student/Farmworker Alliance, in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), is calling on food service industry leaders Aramark and Sodexo to do their part to end the exploitation of farmworkers in their supply chains!...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARAMARK Healthcare Canada’s Environmental Stewardship Initiative has earned a Waste Minimization Gold Award in Communications from the Recycling Council of Ontario (RCO) for the second straight year, further endorsement of ARAMARK’s effort to promote sustainability at nearly 200 healthcare facilities throughout Canada. The award, in recognition of excellence and...
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
By Linda Borg CENTRAL FALLS, R. I. -- Now you can have waffles with your reading primer. At the Robertson Elementary School, children spend the first 10 minutes of class eating a nutritious breakfast -- a whole-wheat English muffin, wheat bagel or whole-grain waffle, plus milk, juice and a fruit or yogurt. The program, called Breakfast in the Classroom, is the brainchild of food service provider Aramark...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Students at the University of Florida (UF) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) spent last Saturday morning raising their voices for justice for tobacco workers. Chanting ”Justice now!” and holding signs that read “Hasta la Victoria” (”Onward to Victory”), dozens of students marched and rallied on UF’s Gainesville campus. The students joined members...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Neighborhood Centers Inc. (NCI) announced that five families in its Stay Connected program will receive much-needed refurbishments to their homes after damage from Hurricane Ike. The project is part of NCI’s ongoing partnership with ARAMARK, a global leader in professional services, through ARAMARK Building Community, the company’s commitment to strengthen and...
Bellwether Green Supply Chain (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Real progress on the food service and environmental front. Read more.. ARAMARK Higher Education has partnered with Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP) to support CA-CP’s development of the “CHarting Emissions from Food Services” (CHEFS) foodservice carbon calculator. The new CHEFS tool will quantify the environmental impact of growing, producing, transporting, preparing, and disposing of...
Paramus Post (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
BioClinica, Inc. has signed a long term, 36,143-square-foot lease as the anchor tenant at 800 Adams Avenue, a new, class A office building in the Philadelphia suburb of Valley Forge, PA. FirstService Williams New Jersey, the Garden State office of the world’s fourth largest commercial real estate services firm, represented BioClinica. O’Neill Properties Group is the landlord. Headquartered...
Jon's union blog (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It’s good to read some positive reporting of the work done in Sheffield last week as part of the “Three Companies” project with which the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is assisting UNISON in a drive to organise workers employed by Compass, Sodexho and Aramark. In a few days the UNISON NEC Development and Organising Committee will receive a presentation on this project...
PAUL BELL (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I spent the whole of last week working in Sheffield, my home city. UNISON and the American trade union SEIU are working together to target three multi-nationals who operate in both countries, namely: Compass (British), Sodexho (French) and Aramark (American). Around 50 of us were trained on Monday and Tuesday and put the training into practice Wednesday to Friday, talking with 453 school kitchen assistants,...
The Baltimore Business Journal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Baltimore City has hired Stamford, Conn.-based Centerplate for the next 10 years to feed the up to 500,000 annual visitors to the Baltimore Convention Center.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARAMARK, a global provider of professional services, has received the 2009 Theodore Roosevelt Workers’ Compensation and Disability Management Award for its employee safety and claims management programs. The award is given by Risk & Insurance magazine, a leading publication in the risk management industry, to honor organizations for their efforts to reduce the...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
A Huntley man who worked as a supervising cook for a Cook County Jail contractor has been indicted in a scheme to smuggle marijuana into the jail, authorities said today. Ivan Garcia, 22, was arrested earlier this month following a sting operation set up when the Cook County Sheriff's Office of Professional Review received a tip he was smuggling tobacco and marijuana into the jail, according to a...
Jon Slattery (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
BBC World Service journalists protested outside their London headquarters at Bush House today in support of sacked canteen staff. The journalists included Alan Johnston who spent four months in captivity after being kidnapped in Gaza in 2007. Members of the NUJ and broadcasting union BECTU waved plastic cutlery to demonstrate their support for the canteen workers and opposition to changes to the catering...
The South Florida Business Journal (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Aramark Services has informed the state that it will lay off 96 employees effective Nov. 8.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The UMOM New Day Center will receive final enhancements to its new location (3320 East Van Buren Street) from 100 greater Phoenix-area volunteers on Thursday, Nov. 12. Employees from ARAMARK, the global provider of professional services, will dedicate their time, talent and energy, marking the beginning of a new, long-term partnership between UMOM and ARAMARK Building Community,...
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