Sodexho Unionizes

Xavier University Exhibit All Xavier Student Newspapers Xavier Student Newspapers 2003-02-05 Xavier University Newswire Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Follow this and additional works at: https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper Recommended Citation Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio), "Xavier University Newswire" (2003). All Xavier Student Newspapers. 2930. https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/student_newspaper/2930 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Xavier Student Newspapers at Exhibit. It has been accepted for inclusion in All Xavier Student Newspapers by an authorized administrator of Exhibit. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ·x AVIE R UNIVERSITY Published since 1915 by the students ofXavier University 88th year, issue 18 week of FEBRUARY 5, 2003 www.xavier.edu/newswire Sodexho unionizes BY CHUCK SAMBUCHINO hours. Having a union gives them a mending that Sodexho workers be the thoughts of employees. We signed up for it now." Senior News Editor chance to speak as one group with a given a fair chance to vote on a complied with the card check Other workers who cannot be Long after the protest outside of collective voice and important is union by using the card check agreement, and now we're obli named were not as anxious about Cintas, massive dialogue from the sues." agreement. gated to negotiate a contract the union, stating reasons like high "Justice Across Campus" commit Meanwhile, Rev. Ben Urmston, The card check/neutrality through the coming months." union fees and restrictions on where tee, and years of talking wi.th on S.J., of the Peace & Justice program agreement is the more open of the Courtesy of a supportive reso people will be able to work. campus workers, Sodexho food ser formed "Justice Across the Campus" two common ways to elect being lution passed by the Student Gov Now that the workers have vice employees - a committee part of a union. ernment Asso unionized, negotiations with finally made a inspired by his The other is a ciation and a Sodexho will begin in the coming decision about national Jesuit National Labor letter from months. According to Nissim becoming orga ''It's better to be conference visit Relations proce ''It's all right, what Graham, the Sabat, committees have already nized and voted in 2000. dure that in they're planning. card check/ been formed to draft proposals. in favor of join organized than not "We dis- volves secret bal neutrality pro "Father Graham deserves so ing a union. to be organized. It's cussed the op lots. Better deals, better cess was much credit," Nissim-Sabat said. The vote took portunity of a According to agreed upon to "He has ensured rights for the work place through a matter ofdignity, union at length Nissim-Sabat, hours. ~should be ensure fairness ers and was instrumental in mak- the second half and spoke to . corporations . for the vote. .ing .sure .that no threats .or intimida- . of 2002. When value and worth. " many people," tend to favor the able to get 40 hours· Sodexho tion would be part of the election." the ·ballots were - Rev. Ben Urmston, S.J. said Urmston. latter because it employees Sodexho is currently the largest counted, the ma "It's better to be does not favor a week ifwe signed. had months to food service industry for the United jority of XU's organized than unions and stalls up for it now. " make a deci States and Canada. Of their many 100 or so non- not to be orga elections while. sion on where workers all over the world, only a - Mickey Finnerson student workers were .in favor of be nized. It's a matter of dignity, value intimidating they stand and small percentage belong to a coming part of the Hotel Employ and worth." workers. It's ar _Sodexho Employee mail in their union. ees. and Restaurant Employees .. He went on to explain how gued · that. the card to a neu Nissim-Sabat seemed optimistic (H.E.R£.) un.ion. church teaching on labor issues sup company ultimately has the right · tral third party. By December of . about the future of unions concern As early as November 2000, port unions, and thus influenced the to interfere with the process and si-. this past year, it was reported to ing Sodexho workers. When .a pre conversations circled among committee's decision. "Not orily do lence workers atmeetings. Also, Father Graham that the majority vious statement said in Cincinnati Sode~ho employees concerning unions protect workers, he said, but with the aforementioned proce voted in favor of the H.E.R.E. CityBeat was brought up concern:.: work issues like health coverage they also contribute to the common dures; majority votes favoring a union. ing Nissim-Sabat's belief that and hour disputes. Word eventu good and help solve community union can be appealed and Surprisingly, most Sodexho Sodexho is tough on unions, he ally got around to Ryan Nissim problems." stretched out over time. workers approached were hesitant didn't reiterate or retract the quote. Sabat, a H.E.R.E. organizer work By the next year, Rev. Miehael Dan Yaeger, general manager of to speak on the decision. Mickey Instead, he just softly said, "That's ing for the Local 12 branch. Graham, S.J., had already asked XU's dining services, did not claim Finnerson, a Burger King em changing." f 1 • "Workers .should have the right Urmston for a study on what should .to support one way or the other. ployee, was more open than most. to organize," said Nissim-Sabat. be done concerning the improve "There was no preference con "It's all right, what they're plan • "Topics that people were talking ment of Xavier's commitment to God cerning how ·employees voted," ning." Finnerson said. "Better about were things like health cov and service. Urmston worked with said Yaeger. ''All that mattered was deals, better hours. We should be SodeXho erage, wages, family coverage and Nissim-Sabat and replied by recom- defining the best way to find out able to get 40 hours a week if we ERIS brings Patricia Williams ANGELE ECHELE places doomed to be called the Wellesley College and a 1975 cording to the MacArthur Foun American Law Teachers. She has Contributor Third World, I hear the word triage. graduate of Harvard Law School, dation, "Using the tools of liter been published in numerous peri This Sunday, Feb. 9, 2003, I worry about this image that casts where she acquired her Doctorate ary and legal theory, Williams sets odicals and literary journals includ Xavier University's Ethic/Religion aside so many so easily. It envisions of Jurisprudence. Serving as a out her views of contemporary. ing USA Today, Harvard Law Re and Society, in cooperation with poor and dying populations as sepa member on faculties of the Univer culture and events. Her voice has view, Tikkun, The New York Times XU Women's and Minorities' Stud rate, distant, severable." She goes on sity of Wisconsin School of Law, created a new form of legal writ Book Review,.· and The Nation. She ies, presents Patricia J. Williams. to say, "I fear triage; lfear that one Harvard University's Women's ing and scholarship that integrates is also the author of many literary Williams speaks at 7:30 p.m. in the cannot cut off a third of the world Studies Program, and the City personal narrative, critical and lit acclaimed works: The Alchemy of Schiff Family Confer.ence Center, without some awful, life-threaten Univeristy of New York Law School erary theory, traditional legal doc Race and Rights; The Rooster's Cintas Center. Her lecture entitled ing bleeding in the rest of the body at Queen's College, Williams was trine, and empirical and sociologi Egg, and Seeing a Color-Blind "Seeing a Color-Blind Future," politic." Much of academia sees the recipient of the MacArthur Fel cal research." Future. In 1991, The Alecemy of speaks about how Americans have Williams as one of the most provoca lowship in 2000. Presently, Williams is the James Race and Rights was named one of yet to learn how to properly speak tive, intellectual, American legal The prestigious award, pre L. Dohr Professor of Law at Co the 25 best books of the year and a about the trauma of racism. In her scholars today with outspoken left sented by the John D. and lombia University Law School and feminist classic bound to change book Seeing the Future: The Para wing opinions. Catherine T. MacArthur Founda serves as a board member of the the lives of women. dox of Race, she writes in the first Williams is a Professor of Law at tion, was awarded to this public Center for Constitutional Rights, lecture, "In the context of today's· Columbia Univeristy School of intellectual who will receive a sum NOW·Legal Defencse and Educa ghettos, inner cities, and those Law. She is a 1972 graduate of of $500,000 over five years. Ac- tion Fund, and the Society of ©2003 THE XAVIER NEWSWillE NEWS: OP-ED: SPORTS: DIVERSIONS: All rights reserved Newsroom .. {513}.;74?~3122 Students get CPAC Gallagher Center Musketters roll Pacino recruits Advertising (513} 745-3561 . Circulation · (513) 745~3130 experience responds over Richmond Farell Editor-in-Chief (513) 745-3607 PAGE2 PAGES PAGE 10 PAGE 14 2 week of FEBRUARY 5, 2003· CAMPUS NEWS.:. THE XA V.IE)l NEWSWIRE. BRIEFS0 ;···s<··· . s·.·.··-..·t· :.·u· ... · t.···•s·.··.. ·- - V1IBll'Mii-.'. ~.. p.··~d&.···-a~ .. 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