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Related: About this forumThis is the tipping point for the Aramark Rolling Tub of Scandalous...
Unbelievable.....FIRE RICK SNYDER as this is a severe SAFETY and SECURITY issue to the Men and Women in this State working for the Michigan Department of Corrections....
House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel (D-Auburn Hills) and Reps. Brandon Dillon (D-Grand Rapids) and Sam Singh (D-East Lansing) said today that the latest revelation of an Aramark employee trying to contract with one prisoner to kill another prisoner should be the final straw that cancels the Department of Corrections contract with Aramark.
I feel like a broken record or an extra in `Groundhog Day, said Greimel. What other issues need to come to light before Republicans realize the safety of our state is at risk. I would hope that my Republican House colleagues would agree with me that enough is enough and immediately cancel the contract.
The latest Aramark employee problem was revealed today in a Detroit Free Press article about a Michigan State Police investigation of an Aramark employee at the Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula asking a prisoner to arrange a hit on another prisoner in a different facility. A prisoner came forward in July saying that the food service worker approached him about arranging the hit. The Aramark worker was banned from the facility but not arrested, and an investigation was started. Now a warrant request has been submitted to the Chippewa County Prosecutors Office.
The problems with Aramark have gotten progressively worse, and now we have a murder for hire plot. If this is the kind of person Aramark hires then not even our prison guards are safe in these facilities, said Dillon. They are endangering employees and this is costing the state extra money. Is Aramark going to pay for the state police investigation? Id be surprised if the state is realizing any of the savings that were supposed to come with this Aramark contract, but savings are irrelevant when you are putting your law-abiding employees in danger. Our guards and other law-abiding workers deserve better. As Leader Greimel said: enough is enough.
http://www.housedems.com/news/article/house-dems-say-aramark-employee-murder-for-hire-plot-should-be-the-final-straw
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This is the tipping point for the Aramark Rolling Tub of Scandalous... (Original Post)
LovingA2andMI
Sep 2014
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Hopefully this and the food benefits cuts will be enough to squash this 'gander' at
Purveyor
Sep 2014
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Purveyor
(29,876 posts)1. Hopefully this and the food benefits cuts will be enough to squash this 'gander' at
the polls. (I hate being labeled a 'gander' by the way. Sounds ridiculous. I'm a Michiganian, thank you!)
What I do greatly fear, and there is already scuttlebutt about it, is what bullshit the 'lameduck' government will do between election day and the change of term.
I hear prevailing wage could be one action they will take and we are powerless to stop them just like 'right to work' that was passed in lameduck session.
You know if Schauer wins, they will go out of their way to 'break things'.