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LIVERMORE FALLS -- Regional School Unit 73 directors on Thursday approved a three-year contract with Jay food service workers, Superintendent Bob Wall said Monday.
The agreement calls for a 1.5-percent pay increase the first year, a 1.75-percent increase the second, and a 2-percent increase the third, he said.
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NEW YORK, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Online advertised vacancies rose 208,800 in March to 4,454,500 according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine(TM) (HWOL) Data Series released today. The March rise follows a large January increase and a small change in February, and brings the gain in labor demand in the first quarter of 2011 to over 600,000.
Thus far in 2011, labor demand is looking strong," said June Shelp, Vice President at The Conference Board. "In the first quarter of 2011, the monthly increase in advertised vacancies has averaged about 200,000/month. That's good news after the overall anemic growth in labor demand over the last 11 months of 2010. In March, almost half of the advertised vacancies were new ads that were not there the previous month (new ads up 98,200)....
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Sodexo USA's unionized food service workers at the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus ratified a three-year contract this week that gives the 200 members pay raises ranging from a minimum of $1.50 an hour to as much as $4 an hour, said Matthew Painter, a spokesman for Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ.
The agreement was approved by 90 percent of the workers voting, he said. Under the contract, the workers' wages will range from about $10 an hour to $15 an hour, Painter said.
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When food service workers for the New Boston, Ohio, school system found weevils in a bag of dried egg noodles, they carefully removed the insects--and...
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The contract between Hempfield Area School District and its bus drivers, food service workers and custodians has expired, but don't expect a strike, according to officials.
Negotiations toward a new contract will continue, said Gil Gall, a union representative for the Pennsylvania State Education Association. The employees are members of the Hempfield Area Education Support Professionals, which includes drivers, custodians, food service workers, paraprofessionals and assistant nurses. The previous three-year pact expired at 12:01 a.m. today.
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Introduction
Local government health promotion programs are essential to reducing disease risks and improving the health and well-being of individua...
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DIXFIELD - Food service workers in the former SAD 43 school system saw their pay rise to almost that of the other two school districts in the Western Foothills Regional School Unit 10, thanks to action taken by the board last week.
RSU 10 Superintendent Tom Ward said Wednesday that the 12 part- time nutrition employees who work in the Mountain Valley region will receive a 3 percent salary hike for the fiscal year that began July 1.
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Byline: Martin Luttrell
WORCESTER - Employees of Sodexo Inc., the food service company that operates three dining facilities at Clark University, wi...
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Union food service workers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania continued voting Thursday night on whether to authorize a strike against Aramark Corp., which represents 105 workers at several sites at the Indiana campus and Punxsutawney.
Service Employees International Union's Workers United said it represents those workers, but that has been challenged by rival union Unite Here Local 57, both in Pittsburgh. Workers United spokeswoman Jennifer England said Aramark refused to bargain with the union on a contract to replace the pact that expires on July 14, even after the National Labor Relations Board in Pittsburgh recognized it as the bargaining agent.
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A cough. A sneeze. Perhaps a bead of sweat from a fevered brow.
They're not ingredients that are supposed to come with a food order, but a national survey of restaurant workers released this month served up an unsavory possibility.