Contracted food service workers at the three hospitals are protesting the company's "pattern of interfering with, restraining and coercing workers who are fighting to form a union," according to a news release from 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union.
“We voted to strike based on ongoing wage theft issues, high health care premiums and disrespectful treatment. We also face ongoing intimidation by management,” Louis Olsen, a food service worker at Good Shepherd Hospital, says in a news release. “We are taking a stand for better jobs, conditions and benefits for Lehigh Valley Sodexo workers.”
Sodexo workers earn as little as $8.25 an hour, and family health care coverage is out of reach for many. Last fall, Sodexo employees at several hospitals and schools in the region began petitioning for better pay and benefits. Employees allege Sodexo management began intimidating workers by "spying (on) workers engaged in union activity and threatening workers for wearing union t-shirts."
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2010/10/sodexo_workers_at_lehigh_valle.html
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