Coliseum employees say for months, Aramark has led them to believe they would ultimately be offered some form of severance after the A's leave Oakland. Now, many of these workers are unsure of what they'll do next.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) – For Kenyetta Gentry, the Oakland A’s are a part of her family’s DNA.

“My grandfather was security here in the 80s - that I know of. If not, even longer. And my auntie, Auntie Pat, she worked here as security as well,” Gentry said.

A tradition in which Gentry has participated.

For the past 24 years, she’s worked for Aramark, the company that runs the shops and concession stands at the Coliseum for home games.

After all those years of service, Gentry says she was shocked to find out Monday that Aramark will not be offering any severance to their employees following the A’s last game on Thursday.

In addition, Gentry says she and her coworkers will also lose their health insurance.

  • @RoidingOldMan
    18•3 months ago

    That’s terrible and it sucks, but honestly they announced the team moving April 2023. They gave 1.5 years notice 1.5 years ago right? How much more do you expect?

    • @[email protected]English
      12•3 months ago

      Yeah. They’ll get unemployment though, right? Since they’re being laid off, they should qualify for unemployment. They’re in California, so they should get benefits.

      You really shouldn’t be surprised about losing health insurance either, since in the US it’s tied to your job. I assume, it being CA, that they’ll have some form of medicaid for unemployed people as well.

    • abff08f4813c
      1•3 months ago

      Sounds like the company is also going out of business… typically we can’t expect a bankrupt company to provide these benefits. This is why there needs to be a gov’t payer of last resort here for these sort of things.