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Cafeteria workers who are striking Aramark, the company that serves food at CBS’s New York headquarters and other corporate facilities, are seeking to gain the attention of the broadcasting company’s shareholders in an unusual way. Unite Here Local 100 asked CBS shareholders, who were holding their annual meeting in New York Thursday, to reject CBS’s proposed acquisition of CNET for $1.8 billion in cash. In a statement, the union cited critical comments by the Wall Street Journal and several analysts about the take-over. Referring to the union’s own strike, Bill Granfield, president of the union local, said, “As CBS presents a rosy outlook for shareholders, it yet again tries to sweep its problems under the rug — just as it has by refusing to help resolve the strike at its headquarters.” Last week the union noted in another statement that while just one 30-second commercial on CBS sells for around $360,000, the combined yearly pay of all 12 cafeteria employees working at CBS headquarters comes to only two-thirds of that amount.

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