HERE Cites Food Safety Record and Poor Employee Relations as Obstacles to Further Growth for Flying Food Group; British Airways Awards Contract To Troubled Airline Catering Firm.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2002 According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Momberger Aviation Catering News (3/10/02), British Airways, at Newark Airport, has awarded a three-year catering contract to Flying Food Group, an airline catering firm beset by numerous problems. The company is currently facing a complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right for unfair labor practice Conduct prohibited by federal law regulating relations between employers, employees, and labor organizations. Before 1935 U.S. labor unions received little protection from the law. charges and has a number of racial discrimination allegations pending against it with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. "It's unfortunate that British Airways is rewarding Flying Food Group and their race-to-the-bottom management style," said Jason Ortiz, a research analyst with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HEREIU HEREIU Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union ). "Ultimately Flying Food Group's low-road approach to employee relations and food safety will be a detriment to their plans for further growth. We often find that companies that mistreat their workers also mistreat their customers." Flying Food Group has also been cited with non-compliance citations by the USDA-Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS FSIS Food Safety and Inspection Service FSIS Food Safety Information System (of Malaysia) FSIS Fixed-Size Importance Sampling FSIS Functional Support Information Systems FSIS Fire Support Interface Specification ), at their food preparation facilities in Chicago, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Miami, Orlando and Newark, New Jersey. "I'm frankly surprised and disappointed that British Airways would choose to do business with a company like Flying Food," said Anita Ratnam, a British Airways frequent flier, who flies out of Newark Airport. "I sure hope the stuff I've heard about their food safety record doesn't result in a turbulent tummy the next time I fly from Newark." Flying Food Group is a private company based in Chicago, with in-flight kitchens at airports in Chicago (O'Hare and Midway), New York (JFK), Newark, Miami, Orlando, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Shanghai, China. Flying Food's facilities in Miami, Chicago (O'Hare), San Francisco and Seattle are joint ventures with Servair, an Air France subsidiary and one of the largest in-flight global catering companies. To read more about Flying Food Group's food safety record, the labor dispute it is embroiled em·broil tr.v. em·broiled, em·broil·ing, em·broils 1. To involve in argument, contention, or hostile actions: "Avoid . . . in and the allegations of racial discrimination against the company, visit www.flyingfoodfailures.org. |
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