Opposition to Aramark's bid for food contract heating up
Source: Samantha Broussard-Wilson, Yale Daily News (CT), Thursday, March 27, 2008
After last week's emotionally charged public hearing before the Board of Aldermen -- which was attended by over 200 public-school cooks, custodians, teachers, parents and students -- Aramark may soon be leaving town. But the company isn't going without a fight.
...... Larry Dorman, a spokesman for the Local 287 division of Council 4, said the most efficient and effective model the city could adopt would be a self-managed model rather than an outside-contractor setup. "We think the mayor and the aldermen really need to look hard at why the city has spent millions of dollars with an outside contractor to essentially act as an incompetent middle man," Dorman said.