Take Action! Call Aramark headquarters next week to demand accountability and human rights!

Students and non-students alike, Aramark campus or not, start getting ready for the national Aramark Call-in Days of Action, this Monday and Tuesday, November 23-24. It's time to demand accountability from Aramark and let them know we haven't forgotten about them, even in the midst of the National Supermarket Week of Action.

Call-in info and sample script coming soon...

Background: Since last spring, the Student/Farmworker Alliance -- in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers -- has led the national "Dine With Dignity" campaign calling on major food service provider corporations to work with the CIW to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers in their tomato supply chains.

As students -- whose tuition and meal plan dollars fatten the profits of corporations like Aramark -- we have the right and responsibility to know where the food served on our campuses comes from, under what conditions it was produced, and to demand accountability from our schools and the corporations they contract with. As part of "Dine With Dignity," SFA members and other CIW allies on campuses and in communities across the country have taken action, held educational events, written editorials, collected petitions, passed resolutions, and held meetings with their Dining directors and local Aramark representatives to express their concerns and their demand that Aramark address the human rights crisis in Florida's fields.

Local Aramark representatives on several campuses, however, refuse to even hold meetings with concerned students to talk about the issue of human rights and fair wages for farmworkers in Aramark's supply chain. These include the University of Houston, the University of Florida, the University of Texas-Austin, and Florida Gulf Coast University.

It's time to let Aramark know that this is unacceptable. It's time to demand accountability and human rights today!

Student/Farmworker Alliance
http://sfalliance.org/

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