From: Keith Elis (hagbard@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 05:45:05 MDT
I went and re-read some of the old articles about Ted Turner's gift of
$1 billion over ten years to the UN. I think Turner is in the running
for 'Dunce of the Decade'. I respect his business acumen, but talk about
just pissing money away for no good reason. It seemed like such a bad
idea even then, in 1997 when he announced it. He wanted to take the
money out of the US economy where it was doing some good and hand it off
to the UN where now, it seems, they will use it to purchase new
silverware. Turner might have invested it in a poor country, or several,
and he would have been a real hero. But now, the UN is clinically
impotent, and has lost whatever teeth the US was providing. Turner is no
doubt spitting mad. I'd love for him to go public with some of his
thoughts on Bush.
Keith
Interesting to note that Aramark tends to low-ball businesses and
institutions for such contracts, and then provide a lower service level
agreement. Money is the mantra and that is what most care about,until
it hits the fan. Combine this with a org (UN) that pimps for dictators,
because allah or marx so command it, and you have the UN. I would vote
for a more pleasing international institution, that suit US interests.
Something that by-passes the UN, the EU, the Hague etc.
Aramark and the UN: Two bad organizations that need to be boycotted.
<<Come Monday, the workers should be back at their stations. The dispute
has been temporarily resolved with the Union agreeing that the vacation
pay remains RA's responsibility. The Union also wasn't willing to risk
Aramark's only option of replacing all the workers.
Terry Colvin quoted an article:
<<The decision to make the cafeterias into "no pay zones" spread through
the 40-acre complex like wildfire. Soon, the hungry patrons came
running. "It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene," said one
Aramark executive who was present. "They took everything, even the
silverware," she said. Another witness from U.N. security said the
cafeteria was "stripped bare." And another told TIME that the cafeteria
raid was "unbelievable, crowds of people just taking everything
in sight; they stripped the place bare." And yet another astonished
witness said that "chickens, turkeys, souffles, casseroles all went out
the door (unpaid)." >>
<<"I hope we have large crowds rushing to come to lunch on Monday," an
Aramark executive said. "But this time we expect them to pay for what
they take.">>
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