monopolistic cost cutting practices that lead to bad food. Aramark is one of the visible features of what's wrong with the current immigration-industrial complex and "serving" large scale university and public school systems.
...Aramark has also been the subject of a number of scandals regarding labor practices and business ethics. These include firing workers for reporting unsanitary food conditions, paying fringe wages, not paying for all hours worked, not paying backpay, and firing or eliminating the positions of those who file Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims...
In 2013, an investigation by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges discovered that the food provided to inmates at Burlington County Jail in New Jersey was substandard and spoiled, and often made prisoners sick with diarrhea and vomiting.[45] Maggots found in the food preparation areas at Parnall Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan, may have been the source of an outbreak of food-borne illness.[46][47]
Maggots were also found in Aramark food products at Michigan's Charles Egeler Reception & Guidance Center[48] and two Ohio prisons, the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Trumbull Correctional Institute.[49]...
Likewise, Aramark has been criticized for skimping portion sizes, food safety issues, and overcharging state governments (Michigan, Kentucky, and Florida) that have used their food in prisons; a Kentucky prison riot is reputed to have been caused by the low quality of food Aramark provided to inmates.[54][55]...
In Ireland, Aramark has been criticised for its management of three 'direct provision' centres, where those seeking asylum in Ireland must stay until their application is complete, sometimes for a matter of years.[56] Activists have called for boycotting Aramark for profiting off the direct provision system, as well as the alleged mistreatment of asylum seekers in Aramark-run centres.[57]
In 2014, asylum seekers in County Meath launched a hunger strike over the "unacceptable living standards" in the Aramark-run centre.[58] In 2018, Aramark was forced to apologise after a mother of three from Zimbabwe was refused a slice of bread for her sick child.[59] Soon after, the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) voted to support a boycott of Aramark over its direct provision links, following on from the 'Aramark off our campus' campaigns at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), University College Dublin (UCD), and the University of Limerick
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