Categories: News

White House task force recommends making school cafeteria jobs full-time, in response to ongoing staff shortages

School cafeterias across the country are facing staff shortages, making it harder to carry out their breakfast and lunch operations, and stretching nutrition teams thin. One possible solution? Business Insider reports that the federal government could have an impact by making school food jobs significantly more appealing to workers. That’s according to a new White House task force report on worker empowerment. The report suggests that the Department of Agriculture, which administers nutrition programs, explore the idea of requiring its school partners to hire cafeteria workers on a full-time basis. Doing so would not only make the jobs—which are typically low-paid and part-time—more attractive to workers, but also encourage unionization in the sector. Jessica Fu

Related Post
The Counter
Share
Published by
The Counter

Recent Posts

Grist acquires The Counter and launches food and agriculture vertical

Grist, an award-winning, nonprofit media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices,…

6 months ago

Is California giving its methane digesters too much credit?

Every year, California dairy farms emit hundreds of thousands of tons of the potent greenhouse…

2 years ago

Your car is killing coho salmon

Highway 7 runs north-south through western Washington, carving its way through a landscape sparsely dotted…

2 years ago

The pandemic has transformed America’s dining landscape into an oligopoly dominated by chains 

One of the greatest pleasures I had as a child growing up in the Chicago…

2 years ago

California is moving toward food assistance for all populations—including undocumented immigrants

Undocumented immigrants experience food insecurity at much higher rates than other populations, yet they are…

2 years ago

Babka, borscht … and pumpkin spice? Two writers talk about Jewish identity through contemporary cookbooks.

Writer Charlotte Druckman and editor Rebecca Flint Marx are both Jewish journalists living in New…

3 years ago