I don’t know of any campus that doesn’t gripe about its food service. Too often, conglomerates such as Chartwells and Aramark take over campuses and provide 1, substandard food at 2, overpriced costs to 3, poor students. Said students, forced to find employment due to unreasonably high tuition fees, are then paid minimum wage and given minimum rights in a frequently non-unionized environment.
Universities make deals with companies like these without consulting the student body despite complaints about the quality and cost of the food. Often this is a first-year student’s only recourse, living in residence and a meal plan that is deceptive of what the food is really like.
Enter the Stir It Up! Campaign. It’s cool because it makes a co-ordinated effort for Canadian students, both employees of campus cafeteria and its consumers, to get together and discuss the problems that lie with corporate food service. In many ways, Stir It Up! represents the unity of students and workers on issues – since, in this case, they are actually one and the same group at risk.
For more information, check out http://www.stiritupcampaign.org/.
Keep fighting the good fight!
- JP
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