rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/shredthecontract?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-shredthecontract' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Emma Smith https://actionnetwork.org/users/shred-the-contract-wwu/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/052/514/normal/Screen_Shot_2018-08-06_at_2.00.17_PM.png For years, students at Western Washington University have eaten meals prepared and served by Aramark, a multi-billion dollar corporation that runs the dining programs of colleges and universities around the country. Yet many students are unaware of the troubling track record that this corporation holds. Aramark has deep ties to the prison-industrial complex, prioritizes profit over the rights of their employees, and has a history of mistreating student employees here at Western. In 2021, Western's contract with Aramark ends; this opens up an opportunity for Western to stop contracting out our food system to corporations and to instead adopt a self-operated dining system. Add your name to the list of students, staff, and community members standing up against corporate food in pursuit of a truly just food system at WWU! ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The following are an incomplete list of our concerns with Aramark. *Aramark profits deeply from the prison-industrial complex, as they run over 500 dining operations in prisons across the country. Under their watch, prisoners have been served food containing maggots and rocks and experienced sexual assault in the kitchens, among many other injustices. *Aramark has been documented as underpaying their employees and attempting to prevent workers from organizing. The story of Ana Ebanks, a woman of color who worked at Aramark for 10 years and was fired for missing just 40 minutes of work while she was in class illustrates that Aramark prioritizes profit over people. (see tinyurl.com/AnaEbanks). *Many students here at Western have reported unjust working conditions as employees in the dining hall, including threatening a worker into showing up when they were severely ill. LEARN MORE... What does a self-operated dining system look like? What is wrong with Aramark? How is Aramark connected to prisons? https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/shredthecontract