End La Salle's contract with Aramark
End La Salle's contract with Aramark
The Issue
It is time to end La Salle's association with Aramark.
Aramark is a multinational corporation that La Salle University contracts to run its dining services on campus. It is one of the biggest foodservice providers in the country and is contracted by hundreds of universities across America.
Aramark is a fundamentally unethical corporation and has become a huge beneficiary of the prison industrial complex. In addition to providing dining services to universities across the country, Aramark also serves private prisons. This allows Aramark to capitalize on mass incarceration. This also allows Aramark to capitalize on the suffering of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), who are disproportionately affected by mass incarceration.
Inside the prisons that Aramark serves, there have been many reports of unsanitary conditions that have a detrimental effect on incarcerated people. These incidents include reports of incarcerated people discovering maggots in their food, food poisoning, food shortages, alongside many other instances of unacceptable conduct.
As an institution, La Salle can not continue to support a corporation that is antithetical to the values it was founded upon. The university can not claim to support the advancement of social justice while simultaneously supporting a corporation that upholds systemic racism and injustice. It is time to hold La Salle accountable and demand real change now.
La Salle University must
- End its contract with Aramark
- Transition to self-operated dining systems
- Protect the employees that serve La Salle through Aramark and employ them directly
Corporations like Aramark have established monopolies on food service and exploit those that work for them. These corporations are unethical and profit off of the suffering of marginalized people while also perpetuating the harm done by the prison industrial complex. La Salle has chosen to turn a blind eye to Aramark's unethical practices in order to increase profits.
La Salle must hold itself to the standards of diversity, inclusion, and justice that it claims to have.
The Issue
It is time to end La Salle's association with Aramark.
Aramark is a multinational corporation that La Salle University contracts to run its dining services on campus. It is one of the biggest foodservice providers in the country and is contracted by hundreds of universities across America.
Aramark is a fundamentally unethical corporation and has become a huge beneficiary of the prison industrial complex. In addition to providing dining services to universities across the country, Aramark also serves private prisons. This allows Aramark to capitalize on mass incarceration. This also allows Aramark to capitalize on the suffering of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, people of color), who are disproportionately affected by mass incarceration.
Inside the prisons that Aramark serves, there have been many reports of unsanitary conditions that have a detrimental effect on incarcerated people. These incidents include reports of incarcerated people discovering maggots in their food, food poisoning, food shortages, alongside many other instances of unacceptable conduct.
As an institution, La Salle can not continue to support a corporation that is antithetical to the values it was founded upon. The university can not claim to support the advancement of social justice while simultaneously supporting a corporation that upholds systemic racism and injustice. It is time to hold La Salle accountable and demand real change now.
La Salle University must
- End its contract with Aramark
- Transition to self-operated dining systems
- Protect the employees that serve La Salle through Aramark and employ them directly
Corporations like Aramark have established monopolies on food service and exploit those that work for them. These corporations are unethical and profit off of the suffering of marginalized people while also perpetuating the harm done by the prison industrial complex. La Salle has chosen to turn a blind eye to Aramark's unethical practices in order to increase profits.
La Salle must hold itself to the standards of diversity, inclusion, and justice that it claims to have.
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Petition created on July 2, 2020