Issue No 37 | 29 October 1999 | |
NewsHoly Sheet! Dirty Olympic Linen to Cost Jobs
A western Sydney company is under threat following a deal by Olympic organisers to sell off linen to NSW hospitals after the Games.
Unions fear up to 25 workers employed by June Anne Manufacturing, a Penrith company that has been supplying linen to the hospital industry for 26 years, will lose their jobs if the deal goes through. Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union state secretary Barry Tubner says the problem relates to sheets, pillow cases, towels, blanket and laundry bags. Tubner says SOCOG has entered into a leasing arrangement with the State Contracts Control Board that would see the linen sent to a laundry service for cleaning and then sold to NSW hospitals "Because of the size of the order, it could take anything up to two years before the hospital industry needed the services of our members again," Tubner says. Tubner says no-one knows if the Games linen is being made in Australia because SOCOG is refusing to disclose these details.
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