By C1 Staff
COLUMBUS — The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association is hoping to win back a prison food contract they lost in 2013.
Prisons Director Gary Mohr says that despite issues of unsanitary work conditions and staffing and food issues, he’s unconcerned about renewing the contract with Aramark Food Services.
“What’s important to note and what’s not been talked about is, if you look at the performance of Aramark over the last year and you look graphically at the number of incidents, they’ve dramatically gone down,” he told WYSO.
OCSEA says it has a new proposal that would reduce costs for the state, saving more money than Aramark.
“We believe we can make the institutions safer, make the food service operation more efficient, and still save more than $2.9 million dollars below Aramark’s costs,” says Michael Tenney, a member of the union’s Food Service Committee.
The DOC says it will consider the union’s proposal before a new contract is issued this summer.