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May 16, 2013
Clean Show Adjusts Educational Programming to Include Afternoons

NEW ORLEANS — Access to seminars included in show registration fee and open to all attendees

NEW ORLEANS — Every morning during Clean ’13, plus for a couple of hours each afternoon, attendees will have the opportunity to sit in on educational sessions aimed at saving them money, boosting their productivity or generally improving their operations or businesses.

Access to all seminars at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center is included in the show registration fee and isn’t dependent on association membership.

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

  • 8-8:30 a.m. — Meritorious Service Awards, sponsored by the Drycleaning & Laundry Institute.
  • 8-9 a.m. — Coin Laundry Trends for 2013, sponsored by the Coin Laundry Association (CLA).

Learn where the coin laundry industry is going and how that may affect your business so that you can plan for profits.

December 1, 2010
Good News Travels Fast

CHICAGO — Enough from the national press! If someone dies, they cover it. If there’s violence, they cover it. If the economy crashes and burns, they cover it. But if there’s slow, localized economic improvement, they don’t cover it. 

If we rely on television and newspapers to tell us what to do next, we’re in trouble. It’s up to us to anticipate the future and begin to move forward. We are the experts in our own markets, and should know what to expect from them.

July 6, 2009
Federal Minimum Wage Set to Jump to $7.25

WASHINGTON — The last of three scheduled increases in the federal minimum wage will hit on July 24, when all U.S. businesses will be required to raise eligible employee wages to $7.25 and display the proper labor law notice at each business location. To be compliant, all businesses with at least one employee must display the new regulation, regardless of whether employees are hourly, salaried or compensated at more than the minimum wage.

April 18, 2007
Labor Dept. May Investigate Navisa Closure

BRENHAM, Texas — Texas officials have asked the U.S. Department of Labor to investigate whether the more than 70 employees who lost their jobs this month at Navisa’s manufacturing plant in Brenham, Texas, are eligible for additional benefits.

The Houston-based hanger manufacturer shuttered the plant abruptly April 2. Employees returning to work that day found the doors locked and a sign on the door blaming “foreign competition” for the closure.