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Council resolution would toss ‘dirty’ laundry contractor

Measure would call on hospitals, others to contract with industrial launderers that follow labor law

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 10/18/24

Amid concerns that a laundry cleaning company that is contracted with several health care facilities across the city has endangered workers, a City Council resolution introduced this week would call on hospitals to contract with industrial laundry companies that uphold labor, safety and wage laws.

Laundry workers at FDR Services Corp. have alleged for years that they have been forced to work in sweatshop-like conditions at the company's factory on Long Island. The company, which cleans and delivers linens for several hospitals and nursing homes in the city, including Richmond University Medical Center and, until last January, NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, has also failed to settle a contract on behalf of the 175 employees, whose previous pact expired in 2017.

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