What is "Clean Up Sodexo"?

The Clean Up Sodexo campaign is meant to shed a new light on how people think about Sodexo, one of the largest contracted food and facilities companies in the world.

Sodexo dedicates tremendous energy seeking to portray itself as a socially responsible company that employs a diverse workforce and is working to "break the cycle of poverty." Backed by a healthy public relations budget and a robust "corporate social responsibility" campaign, Sodexo seeks to generate publicity that protects its brand from any news story or accusation that would be counter to the image it seeks to project.

But when you talk to Sodexo's workers, they'll tell you that...

• The "cycle of poverty" that Sodexo claims it wants to end starts with a job at Sodexo.
• Sodexo's "commitment to health and wellbeing" stops when its workforce doesn't have access to affordable healthcare.
• Sodexo's effort to build "leadership for diversity and inclusion" fails when, even after thousands of black employees are forced to file a race-bias suit that's eventually settled for $80 million, lawsuits alleging unfair treatment continue to be filed.
• Sodexo's "longstanding policy of non-retaliation that ensures employees can safely report their good-faith concerns without fear of retribution" wears thin when an employee alleging sexual harassment on the job is fired.
• Sodexo's pledge to provide nutritious meals falls short when the parents of students who eat Sodexo's food question its quality, referring to it as "pre-packaged, processed food you would find in the freezer section."

Clean Up Sodexo serves as an online space for the voice of the workers at Sodexo. For too long, the workers that make Sodexo's profits possible have witnessed Sodexo's practice of promoting one thing to the public, and doing something else to its workers.

Clean Up Sodexo's goal is to demonstrate to Sodexo's workers, university students and the communities that its practices affect--and to the company itself--that Sodexo needs to spend far less time talking about ideals--and more time listening to its workers and practicing what it preaches.

Who is Service Employees International Union (SEIU)?

With 2.2 million members in Canada, the United States and Puerto Rico, SEIU is the fastest-growing labor union in the Americas. SEIU members include tens of thousands of front-line food service and janitorial workers in elementary and high schools, universities, hospitals, and long-term care facilities. SEIU food service workers and janitors are committed to improving the services they provide and winning good jobs for their communities.

You can find out more by visiting SEIU.org.