TRSA recently held an Executive Committee Zoom meeting to discuss, among other things, the association’s actions during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent “stay-at home” orders. While preparing for the discussion, we noted the transformation that TRSA’s advocacy programs have undergone during the pandemic.

When 2019 ended there were a lot of opportunities for the linen, uniform and facility services industry to be proactive in the policy arena. In California, TRSA was beating the Californians Against Waste (CAW) organization’s efforts to require commercial laundries to install expensive filtration systems three years in a row. The CAW was ...