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This petition has been created so that students at KU can show the university just how many of us are disappointed and upset with our catering suppliers on campus, Elior. For a long time we have been complaining about the prices of the canteen food as well as the quality, yet nothing is done about these complaints.
Recently it has come to light that as well as providing an awful service to students, Elior also do not respect the University’s policy on Modern Slavery. The staff who give us our canteen food and stand at the checkout tills are paid £7.20 an hour which is below the London Living Wage as well as the National Living Wage. The Student Union pay their staff £9.40 an hour and the University pay students a similar wage (has been subject to change). There have also been issues with Elior staff working overtime and not being paid for this despite this being written into their contracts.
A university is meant to be a place of ethics and we believe that it is unethical behaviour of an institution to employ a supplier/company who are unable to treat their staff in accordance with the KU Modern Slavery policy.
Please sign this petition to get our voices heard and influence management at KU to make a change and pay their staff the London Living Wage.
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January 23, 2018
I am honestly a bit overwhelmed by the momentum behind this because I never imagined so many people would agree that these standards matter. This progress belongs entirely to the students who decided that fairness is worth fighting for on our campus.
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They clearly make enough money (especially since you have tied departments contractually into in-house catering rather than cheaper alternatives, and lets not mention Elior's app failure or how we petitioned against tax evader Starbucks and yet you have since allowed Elior to introduce the brand back onto campus!) to pay their staff the recognised minimum.... I think it is disgusting that the university has allowed this to happen.
Appalling that this contract should have been awarded to Elior when such excellent service was given before.
Save Voluntary Services at Nottingham's Queens Medical Centre Cafe. Keep for-profit Elior out of the NHS
It's disgusting that they can get away with paying their staff so little and charging so much for their rather mediocre food.
Yeah I feel the same the food is ridiculously priced and if it's true you are paying staff £7.20 thats just disgusting
Agree.the food is expensive and the managment should respect the Mim wage
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
This petition has been created so that students at KU can show the university just how many of us are disappointed and upset with our catering suppliers on campus, Elior. For a long time we have been complaining about the prices of the canteen food as well as the quality, yet nothing is done about these complaints.
Recently it has come to light that as well as providing an awful service to students, Elior also do not respect the University’s policy on Modern Slavery. The staff who give us our canteen food and stand at the checkout tills are paid £7.20 an hour which is below the London Living Wage as well as the National Living Wage. The Student Union pay their staff £9.40 an hour and the University pay students a similar wage (has been subject to change). There have also been issues with Elior staff working overtime and not being paid for this despite this being written into their contracts.
A university is meant to be a place of ethics and we believe that it is unethical behaviour of an institution to employ a supplier/company who are unable to treat their staff in accordance with the KU Modern Slavery policy.
Please sign this petition to get our voices heard and influence management at KU to make a change and pay their staff the London Living Wage.
Updates
January 23, 2018
I am honestly a bit overwhelmed by the momentum behind this because I never imagined so many people would agree that these standards matter. This progress belongs entirely to the students who decided that fairness is worth fighting for on our campus.
18 Comments
The University food stores are an utter disgrace. High prices, poor food, staff underpaid. This reflects badly both on the University and on all those associated with it, including the students.
They clearly make enough money (especially since you have tied departments contractually into in-house catering rather than cheaper alternatives, and lets not mention Elior's app failure or how we petitioned against tax evader Starbucks and yet you have since allowed Elior to introduce the brand back onto campus!) to pay their staff the recognised minimum.... I think it is disgusting that the university has allowed this to happen.
Appalling that this contract should have been awarded to Elior when such excellent service was given before.
Save Voluntary Services at Nottingham's Queens Medical Centre Cafe. Keep for-profit Elior out of the NHS
It's disgusting that they can get away with paying their staff so little and charging so much for their rather mediocre food.
Yeah I feel the same the food is ridiculously priced and if it's true you are paying staff £7.20 thats just disgusting
Agree.the food is expensive and the managment should respect the Mim wage
Κ1622568
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The University food stores are an utter disgrace. High prices, poor food, staff underpaid. This reflects badly both on the University and on all those associated with it, including the students.