Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he wants transparency on what issues led the University of Kentucky to terminate over 900 dining employees, even though UK says it will rehire those employees.
During Beshear’s news conference Thursday, he expressed concern over whether those employees will be rehired and have bargaining rights, and whether the university had reason to terminate them.
Aramark notified 890 hourly workers and 36 salary workers at UK last month that they were being laid off because UK was ending its partnership with the company, which provides food services to a wide range of universities. UK is ending its contract with Aramark three years early, said Jay Blanton, spokesperson for UK…