BuzzFeed - A petition started by an Olive Garden employee to force Darden and Starboard Value to listen to workersâ concerns over layoffs and wages has gathered nearly 7,000 signatures. Keith Bedford / Reuters While the pasta water at Olive Garden may be lacking in salinity, the attitudes of workers there and at other Darden restaurants have grown increasingly salty. So much so that nearly 7,000 Darden employees have signed a petition to meet with the company's executive leadership and representatives from Starboard Value, the activist hedge fund trying to replace the entire Darden board, and which recently released a 300-page presentation on why it believes the state of affairs at Olive Garden is in such disarray. If Starboard and Darden leadership don't meet with the employees, they are threatening "direct action" in New York City ahead of Darden's annual meeting in Orlando on Oct. 10. What the petition, started by six-year Olive Garden employee Steve Gazzo and titled, "Darde
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