Aramark, USM deal concerns workers
Source: By Ed Enoch, Hattiesburg American (MS), June 7, 2006
Aramark hopes to begin operations at the University of Southern Mississippi's physical plant on July 1, and meetings are scheduled this month to help ease the transition.
...... Plant employees met with Aramark representatives on campus Monday to learn how their jobs and benefits would change with the proposed outsourcing. Some employees were unhappy with what they heard, especially about retirement plans.
"The security blanket we've got with the state is being taken away," carpenter Keith Mitchell said "We're very disgusted with it." Mitchell, 49, said he has concerns about losing a state retirement plan, which would be replaced by a proposed 401(k) plan. He said he feared the 401(k) is less stable than the pension.