The ongoing strike by US Foods union drivers is having a significant impact on the food choices available to students in Detroit Public Schools (DPS), according to DPS Superintendent Nikolai P. Vitti. This strike is preventing the district, which is Michigan's largest and serves 48,000 students, from receiving its regular volume of food supplies. “These strikes are preventing the District from receiving the volume of food regularly received to feed students,” Vitti said in a statement posted on the district’s website, emphasizing the critical nature of the situation.
