Unions protest Aramark’s food, employee treatment
Spirited choruses of “Si se puede” — the Spanish translation of Senator Barack Obama’s “Yes we can” campaign slogan — kicked off a union-led protest of Aramark’s presence in New Haven public schools on Friday. But by the end, it was the repetition of “Chicken nuggets, get out” that was drawing the loudest applause.
About 300 people gathered at the First & Summerfield United Methodist Church on Friday afternoon to protest what they called the food-service-management company’s poor food quality, poor treatment of workers and poor financial returns. But an Aramark spokeswoman...
Excuse me, but Obama picked up "Yes, we can" from Latino activists in California and other places. "Si, se puede" was resounding in the streets during Cesar Chavez' fast for farmworkers' rights in 1972.