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USA : USTA blunts Unite Here efforts to ban APE
December 1, 2005
On November 11, David Dunlap, UTSA's Director, Government &
Environmental Affairs, discovered that UNITE HERE and the Sierra Club planned to
make a presentation regarding industrial laundry detergents at the National
Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA - the trade association for sewage
treatment plants) Pretreatment Coordinators conference in Kansas City.
This annual event draws hundreds of federal, state, and local pretreatment
regulators, including some of the most influential sewage treatment plant
administrators in the nation.
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UNITE's presence at this pretreatment coordinators conference was indicative of
the labor union's new approach for attacking both individual laundry operators
and the industrial laundry industry (UNITE has been in a series of ongoing,
well-publicized disputes with Cintas).
Because of this event, laundries should expect to receive questions from their
POTWs about the types of detergent they use (i.e. do their detergents contain
APEs) and maybe even some pressure to discontinue use of APEs.
The Uniform and Textile Service Association is an international trade
organization representing textile supply and service companies.
UTSA members provide, clean, and maintain reusable textile products, such as
uniforms, sheets, table linen, shop and print towels, floor mats, mops, and
other items to thousands of business in all industries.
These industries include light, heavy, and hi-tech manufacturing; healthcare;
restaurants; service, retail, construction and transportation industries; and
institutions.
Uniform and Textile Service Association