11/24/2025
There was a time when "The Union Label" was a guide for purchase of goods and even services....
To show that products were made by union workers, union labels were sewn into clothing, attached to hat bands, stamped on printed material, engraved on horseshoes, or displayed on the labels on cans. To show that retail establishments employed union members, union “shop cards” were displayed in storefront windows and behind the counters at bars, butcher shops, restaurants, and barber shops. To show that workers themselves were paid-up union members, union pins were worn by street car drivers, musicians, and construction trades workers. The tactic made unionism highly visible, and it made it easier for the public to support union enterprises.
By 1978 the importance of "union made" was slipping due partly to cheap imports
and the corporate creed ... "more profit what ever the cost." In response, one union produced a commercial that was on all the TV networks...when then numbered 3.
Here it is....even more relevant today.
