SASHAYING around a community meeting hall in burlap skirts, a canteen and a rucksack slung over her shoulder, Stacy Roth recounted her days on the battlefield at Monmouth, filling water buckets, cleaning soldiers' uniforms and stepping in as needed to help fire a cannon.
Still run by the descendants of the Danish immigrant who founded it in 1924, the company provides a service that most people who live or work in the city take for granted: the supplying and cleaning of uniforms for door staff, porters, engineers and security guards at apartment and office buildings.
Soldiers there are making sure everything is in prime condition for the big day, spending hours polishing and cleaning their uniforms and kit.
A redirection of government purchasing would create massive markets for clean power, electric vehicles and efficient buildings, as well as for more sustainably produced furniture, paper, cleaning supplies, uniforms, food and services.
The company agreed to pay $3.75 million to workers who alleged that several Bay Area McDonald's stores miscalculated their pay, denied them overtime, and did not compensate them for cleaning their uniforms, according to documents filed Friday in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Allowances for uniforms, cleaning bills, overtime and special assignments were also increased in the arbitration.
Star City, an Australian casino, is already using smart tags to cut the cost of cleaning the 80,000 uniforms worn by its staff.
Mr. Ludwig, a truck driver for the Prudential Overall Supply Company, a uniform cleaning outfit, had to retire at the age of 59 because of a back injury.
Expanded into uniform rental, cleaning.
