GRITtv: Sodexo Workers Unite

Sodexo is one of the largest and most profitable food services companies, clearing $1 billion in profits last year even amidst global financial crisis. But you wouldn't know it from talking to its workers. Stateside, they earn as little as $8.27/hour, low enough to qualify for food stamps. Something else you'd learn from talking to their workers is that they're not going to stand for it - they're speaking out and going on strike across the nation: at Lehigh Valley Hospitals in Allentown, Pennsylvania, at Highland Park Public Schools in Highland Park, New Jersey, at Morehouse College in Atlanta, at Tulane University in New Orleans, and just this weekend, at Ohio State University.

We talk to Autumn Weintraub, director of the Multiservices Campaign, Clean up Sodexo! and Marcia Snell, a Sodexo concession worker in Columbus.

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News & Politics

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• laura flanders
• grittv
• autumn weintraub
• corporations
• economy
• labor
• marcia snell
• seiu
• sodexo
• strike
• worker's rights

[GHOSTRIDER873]

i work for sodexo in the south england and im waitting on the NEW uniform its ment ov come out september 2011 and we ant got it .its aSHIT compiney i hat to were blue jeans and im a cleaner. its ment to make a every day a better day BLOKESSSS.

[pedonbio]

Sodexo exploits and abuses its workers across the U.S.

[Damncookie]

I work for Sodexo in Sweden. We have better deals here i think.

[Tarkan123456]

Good Luck for all workers and conscious people of the world.We must unite one to the reality that bothers all of us....