OPSEU Local 144 MEDIA ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   April 12, 2007

OPSEU Local 144: Food services workers to rally Friday April 13 at Compass Group offices 

LONDON: Striking food services workers at Huron College will hold a solidarity rally Friday April 13 to demonstrate the widespread support for their strike against their employer, Compass Group Canada (Beaver Ltd.), contractor for the college’s food court.

Outstanding issues in the strike which began March 26 are wages and sick time. The employer, Compass Group, has 400,000 employees worldwide and annual revenues of CDN $27-billion. By contrast, the food court workers’ wages start below the poverty wage level of $10 per hour.

Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 144 representing 20 food service employees and their supporters will rally at:

Date:   Friday April 13, 2007

Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Location: Front of London Office of Compass Group,  493 Dundas Street, London

OPSEU President Leah Casselman will attend and will be available for media interviews.

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For more information, contact:

Denise Sands, Local 144, tel :  519-671-5730
Carol Warner, staff representative, tel :  519- 319-1736
Angela Jacques, Strike Chair, tel:  519-281-8127