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• It All Comes Out in the Wash April 30, 2008 Actions speak louder than words, and all the money in the world can't buy a good reputation when reality paints a different picture.
  
  
• They’ve Got A Union April 28, 2008 Workers at a West River laundry plant ended a year-and-a-half-long labor struggle with a climactic vote.
  
  
• Cintas fined $8K for safety breaches in Newburgh April 25, 2008 NEWBURGH - Less than a year after a Cintas worker in Tulsa, Okla., was killed after becoming trapped in a red-hot dryer, the company was fined $8,000 for safety violations at its Newburgh facility, according to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
  
  

About the Industry

With 40,000 laundry workers in our ranks, UNITE HERE is the biggest laundry union in the U.S. and Canada. And we're getting bigger.

There are three kinds of laundries: hospital linen, hotel and restaurant linen and uniforms. Most companies specialize. UNITE HERE is especially strong in linen, representing workers in that part of the industry and most linen laundry workers in many cities.

We're drawing on our strength to organize the fastest growing—and mostly unorganized—part of the laundry industry, uniforms. Four big companies dominate this sector: Aramark, Cintas, Unifirst and G&K.

Cintas, the industry giant, is keeping wages, benefits and working conditions down throughout the uniform laundry industry. One of every three rented uniforms in the U.S. is from Cintas. And with over 27,000 employees and nearly $3 billion in yearly sales, the company sets the low standards that dominate the uniform industry.

Along with the Teamsters union (which represents laundry drivers), we've launched a campaign to bring justice to Cintas workers and raise standards throughout the industry.