From: Bernard Pollack (beatthemachine@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 12:53:26 EDT
Take Action to Support GW Dining Workers!
Help Aramark workers at GW achieve justice! Aramark
management has been verbally abusive, unresponsive to
unsafe and unhealthy work conditions, negligent in
distributing tens of thousands of dollars in back pay
and slow to provide mandatory raises.
Click on this link to send a letter to Aramark manager
Jim Gillespie and GW President Steven Joel
Trachtenberg:
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/JusticeForGWDiningWorkers
What's At Stake!
Support GW Dining Workers!
The Food Service workers at the George Washington
University are currently engaged in contract
re-negotiations and grievance mediation. Aramark, the
contracted foodservice provider at GW, has been
flagrantly negligent in settling grievances. At this
location alone there are more grievances filed than
for all the other 8,000 members represented by the
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 25
combined.
The workers are seeking to ensure basic human rights
and dignity: the ability to be contacted by their
family members in cases of emergency; to work in a
safe and healthy environment; to not be verbally
abused and dehumanized by their supervisors; to be
allowed to change in a private secure location
(hallways lined with lockers is an unacceptable and
insulting substitute); and to have their pay and
benefits secured and delivered.
In addition to fixing existing problems with
management, the workers are seeking additional
guarantees to ensure that these problems do not
persist during their next contract. The vast majority
of these workers have been at George Washington
University long before Aramark's reign of terror
began, and will be there long after Aramark has gone.
These workers take pride in providing service to GW
students, and maintain a relationship with them, not
Aramark.
Aramark has been ruthless in their managing of these
employees, attempting to instill compliance through
fear and intimidation, rather than through a mutual
respect for the workers. Now the workers need your
help to win dignity and respect at the workplace.
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Bernard Pollack
202-775-2955
pollack@gwu.edu
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