Serving tainted turkey may not improve employee relations
Posted: November 23rd, 2007 - 8:27am by Doug Powell
The Chicago Tribune reports that a goodwill gesture by United Airlines backfired Thursday when a Thanksgiving spread that United had bought for thousands of workers at O'Hare International Airport turned out to have dangerous turkey that sickened at least five employees.
Megan McCarthy, a United spokeswoman, was cited as saying the entire meal for one of the day-shift crews was dumped Thursday morning after staff discovered that the "turkey was not edible."Management gave the airport employees $10 gift certificates for the airports' food vendors to make up for the loss of the meal.
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