The Hardest Working Job Nobody Sees

Industrial laundry is some of the most demanding work in our region: high heat, heavy loads, fast lines, and exposure to soiled healthcare and hospitality linens. Entire industries — hospitals, hotels, restaurants — cannot open their doors without it. Yet laundry workers are among the most invisible workers in the economy. NEJB exists to change that, and has been organizing laundry workers for generations.

A union contract in a laundry plant delivers protections you can't get by asking nicely: enforceable heat and safety standards, proper protective equipment for handling soiled and contaminated linens, wage rates that rise with experience, affordable health coverage for work that's hard on the body, and a voice on line speeds and staffing. When the employer knows every worker on the floor is standing together, conditions stop being optional.

NEJB laundry members can access their contract, steward contacts, and benefits information here. If you work in a non-union laundry, you don't have to accept the heat, the pace, and the paycheck as facts of life. Workers in plants like yours have organized and won. Contact us — confidentially — and find out what's possible.