A contract in question

Lower Sproul food service company comes under fire

By Sally Littlefield

Several years before the company Chartwells was selected to operate restaurants in the newly renovated Lower Sproul Plaza complex, it faced backlash from food service workers at Northeastern University for an array of alleged mistreatment.

Workers there alleged receiving poverty wages without benefits, sick days or vacation days. Female workers also said managers had sexually harassed them. One worker accused his manager of not calling 911 when he was having a heart attack.

Bryan MacCormack, the community liaison for the campus’s Progressive Student Alliance in 2012, said that a coalition of about 50 student groups formed and that the Northeastern student government passed a resolution in support of the workers. The campus’s Chartwells employees joined a food and hotel service union, Unite Here Local 26, in April of that year.

“The students felt a really strong solidarity with the workers,” MacCormack said. “They would call us, and we’d respond.”

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[Source]: Daily Californian