The Service Employees International Union, one of the most aggressive organizers in the country, now wants to organize workers who feed kids their school lunches. The SEIU has targeted workers in 2,000 suburban communities.
The benefit to students and their parents will be higher fees for lunch and increased property taxes to pay for higher wages and benefits.
The SEIU is aiming its organizing campaign at the workers of the Philadelphia-based Aramark, which has 182,000 employees and is one of largest of several companies that provide school lunches. Other companies include Sodexho, Compass Group, and Arbor Management, the last of which has already been targeted by SEIU organizers.
Like most companies that provide school lunch services, Aramark pays competitive wages and provides health care to employees who work more than 20 hours a week.
SEIU is opportunistically attempting unionize all those it can, regardless of the effects on companies and family budgets.
