Angelica Workers in Dallas File Petition to Decertify Union.

ST. LOUIS -- Angelica Corporation (NYSE:AGL), a leading provider of healthcare linen management services, announced today that employees at its Yorktown Street facility in Dallas filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking to decertify the incumbent union, UNITE HERE as their bargaining representative. A substantial number of the employees currently represented by the union at the facility signed the petition. As a result, a hearing has been scheduled by the NLRB for March 31, 2005, that is expected to lead to a vote of all employees covered by the collective bargaining agreement at the facility to determine if UNITE HERE will continue to represent them.

"It is important that this action was initiated by our employees in one of our Dallas facilities," said Steve O'Hara, Angelica's President and Chief Executive Officer. "As in all of our plants across the country, we support and defend the right of our employees to determine for themselves in a secret ballot election conducted by the NLRB, whether or not they wish to have a union."

Mr. O'Hara continued, "For the last 15 months UNITE HERE has conducted a corporate campaign against Angelica, maligning Angelica to our employees, customers, shareholders, and anyone else who would listen. While the union's goal has been to organize workers at Angelica's 10 non-union facilities, many of the union's campaign tactics have targeted the Company's other 23 plants that are already unionized. We believe this petition shows UNITE HERE that Angelica employees want a free and unforced choice regarding representation rights and that workers in plants already represented by UNITE HERE do not wish to be pawns in the union's attempt to organize workers in other plants who may not wish to be organized."

Angelica Corporation, traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AGL, is a leading provider of textile rental and linen management services to the U.S. healthcare market. More information about Angelica is available on its website, www.angelica.com.