You can give the SFA campaign for campus food justice a push by sending a message to Aramark and Sodexo…

Students across the country organized this past week to demand justice for farmworkers from their campus foodservice providers, specifically calling on campus food giants Sodexo and Aramark to follow Compass Group’s lead and help bring an end to Florida’s “Harvest of Shame”.

Here’s an excerpt from the SFA’s week-of-action web report:

“… In Texas, a delegation of Fair Food Austin members and University of Texas students delivered a letter calling on Aramark to step up and enter into an agreement with the CIW to UT-Austin’s Aramark representative (right).

The response from Aramark? A PR statement (that we’ve seen before) claiming, among other things, that the company has already met with the CIW to address the issue. Really?

Fair Food Austin sets the record straight: “According to the CIW, however, no negotiations are currently underway. In fact, Aramark has yet to contact the CIW since the launch of the Dine With Dignity campaign six months ago. And in light of the Fair Food agreements between the CIW and seven multibillion-dollar, multinational food retailers, Aramark’s excuse of supply chain opacity arrives dead on arrival in 2009.”

Read the rest of the SFA’s report here. And then click here to send an email to Sodexo and Aramark executives and add your voice to those of students across the country demanding farm labor justice from the foodservice giants!