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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Food is more expensive and they probably pay their dining hall and housekeeping staff far more than they did 3-4 years ago. [/quote]

If they use the same national company as my kid's university, their union i negotiating a huge pay increase for its workers, way above what they should be paid for unskilled labor.[/quote]

Thanks, are you seeing approx. similar price increases for food and housing at other colleges also over a similar timespan, ie 60%-ish increase over 3-4 years?[/quote]

I can't find the information any longer, but they were striking loudly outside the dorms starting at 5AM every morning the last weeks of the semester an finals week, with drums, recorded bullhorn messages, air horns, bells, etc.  It made for a really difficult finals week as all but one of the dining halls became cold food/grab and go only, and the kids could not study or sleep, so there was a lot of discussion on the parents groups. I recall the company offering a generous increase, but the employees wanted something much higher.  For some reason $25/hour is stuck in my mind, plus a bunch of benefits, but I could be mistaken.  It is a national food service company, the same one that does several Virginia universities.

I don't know what they settled on for the contract, but my kid did not mention strikes  for spring finals, so perhaps the negotiations are finished.  If they got what they wanted, and VT uses the same company, I am not surprised that food went up.[/quote]

The conpany is Compass.

This is what the company offered.  I can't find what the union wanted, but it was much more than the company offered.

"...negotiations between Compass and UNITE HERE Local 1 recently, the union did not vote on Compass’s most recent contract offer, which includes a 16% raise for associates, a back pay bonus, $7 per hour raises over the duration of the contract, 13 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days and an 80% increase in pension contributions..."

This is for the food service workers.  If the cafeteria workers got more than this, I am sure dorm food contracts will increase everywhere. [/quote]

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