Productivity Flows At Sodexho's New West Coast Facility

STOCKTON, Calif. -- With more than 35 laundry facilities, Sodexho USA drew upon vast experience when designing their newest Stockton facility. Construction followed 24 months of planning and input from other Sodexho plants’ executives, managers, and engineers and resulted in a mega-laundry, designated the ‘Safety Role Model’ for all Sodexho laundries.READ THIS STORY

Motivating Unmotivated People
by John Strelecky

If you walk around a Walt Disney World resort or theme park, you are likely to witness something that in most other settings would seem bizarre. Not the presence of a large animated character, although you may witness that also. Rather, at any given moment, a person in dress clothes will be walking from one destination to another and will stop, pick up a piece of paper, a cup, or other piece of trash someone dropped, and throw it in a trash can. Executives do it, front line managers do it, hourly employees do it, everybody does it. READ THIS STORY

Congress Opens Federal Contracting Opportunities
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Senate has passed the Fiscal Year ’04 Omnibus Appropriations bill that provides budgets for many federal departments including the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The bill passed by a vote of 65-28, and includes a provision of the Transportation-Treasury Appropriations bill providing temporary relief from Federal Prison Industries’ (FPI) status as an exclusive source for products and services. Efforts had previously been underway in Washington to provide legislative relief to federal departments required to purchase items such as laundry services, textiles, furniture etc., from FPI. READ THIS STORY

Drive To Unite Angelica
NEW YORK, N.Y. – UNITE, the union of laundry workers in North America, announced that hundreds of workers at plants in more than 20 cities have begun a coordinated campaign to fight for unionization in the nation’s largest healthcare laundry provider, Angelica Textile Services. READ THIS STORY


A Consultant’s Role In Building Your Laundry - Why They’re Needed
by Matt Alexander, MHS

While many professionals agree that it’s important not to overlook the importance of having a consultant involved in the process of building a laundry, many hospital, hotel, nursing home and health club owners/operators engage in the process without a professional consultant. The theory is usually that the laundry manager or corporate management can adequately collect data or otherwise evaluate processes or systems in an effective manor and that they can therefore do it themselves working with contractors, an architect, engineer, and equipment suppliers. READ THIS STORY