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Union-Made in America Halloween Candy Shopping List

Posted by on October 31, 2016

via AFL-CIO Now Blog

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If you want your Halloween to be all treats and no tricks, make sure all your candy is union-made in America. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s resource site, Labor 411, has a list of union-made candies, as does Union Plus. Here are some highlights, featuring sweets made by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW):

5th Avenue
Abba-Zaba
Almond Roca
Baby Ruth
Big Hunk
Bit-O-Honey
Butterfinger
Cadbury
Candy House Buttons
Caramello
Clark Bar
Dum Dums
Ghirardelli Chocolate
Gimbal’s Fine Candies
Hershey’s Kisses
Hershey’s Hugs
Hershey’s Nuggets
Jawbreakers
Jelly Belly
Kit Kat
LOOK!
Mallo Cups
Mary Jane
Mighty Malts
Necco Wafers
Red Vines
Rocky Road
Rolo
Russell Stover
See’s Candies
Sky Bar
Smarties
Snaps
Sour Patch Kids
Sour Punch
Super Ropes
Toblerone
Tootsie Rolls
U-NO
York Peppermint Patties
Zagnut

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Make Your Back-to-School Shopping Union-Made!

Posted by on August 26, 2016

via the AFL-CIO now blog

Around the country, classes are starting up again, students are getting ready to learn once more and parents are rushing out to buy the supplies their children need for school. When shopping for those necessary items, you can make sure that your purchases support working families.

Here is a list of union-made school supplies.

 Paper Products:

  • Boise Paper: Products: Boise X-9, Business Choice, FasCopy, Flagship, Grand and Toy, Office Depot, USA Xerographics, W.B. Mason and Xerographics (United Steelworkers Local 159).
  • International Paper: full list of products (USW).
  • Mead Westvaco/Acco Brands: At-A-Glance, Day Timer planners and organizers, Five Star school supplies and organizational gear, lined paper, Mead school supplies and Really Big Coloring Books (Communications Workers of America, USW).
  • Pacon: Products: Art1st drawing/sketch Pads, Array card stock and bond paper, Art Street construction paper, Bordette Decorative Border, Classroom Keepers storage, Colorwave tagboard, Corobuff 3D decorative backgrounds, Decorol Art Roll paper, Ecology recycled paper, Ella Bella photography backdrops, Fadeless Paper, Flameless Paper, GoWrite! dry erase pads, Kaleidoscope colored paper, Little Fingers construction paper, Neon fluorescent-colored paper products, Peacock colored paper products, Plast’r Craft modeling material, Present-It easel pads, Rainbow Colored Kraft duo-finish paper, Riverside construction paper, Spectra ArtKraft duo-finish paper, Spectra Art Tissue tissue paper, Spectra Glitter, Trait-tex yarn and Tru-Ray construction paper (USW Local 2-1822 and Local 2-1822-01).
  • Roaring Spring: Sub-brands: Boardroom, Emoticons, Envirogold, Environotes, Enviropads, Enviroshades, Genesis, Imagine, Lifenotes, Maxim and WIDE; Products: binders and portfolios, composition notebooks, construction paper, drawing pads, envelopes, folders, index cards, Modern Jen journals and folders, poster board, sketch books and wire-bound notebooks (USW Local 488).

 Other Products:

  • Clauss: Scissors (UAW Local 959)
  • Master Lock: Locks, safes, etc. (UAW Local 469)

 Food Items:

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Made in America: Make Your Fourth of July Barbecue Union Made

Posted by on June 30, 2016

Via AFL_CIO NOW blog.

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It’s Made in America week and we’ll be spotlighting a different product area every day so that working families can show their solidarity for their sisters and brothers. First up, we know many of you will be planning barbecues for the Fourth of July.

Text MADE to 235246 for more union-made in America product lists.

Our lists are courtesy of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s website Labor 411; Union Plus; the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM); and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).

Beer

  •  Budweiser
  •  Coors
  •  Miller
  •  Pabst
  •  Sam Adams

See more beers from Union Plus.

Coolers

  •  Rubbermaid

Flags

  •  Artflag

Games

  •  Battleship
  •  Candy Land
  •  Clue
  •  Connect Four
  •  Monopoly
  •  Twister
  •  Yahtzee

Grills

  •  Weber (Genesis, Summit, Q Series)

Hot Dogs

  •  Ball Park
  •  Butterball
  •  Hebrew National
  •  Hormel
  •  Oscar Mayer

Ice Cream

  •  Breyers
  •  Good Humor
  •  Prairie Farms
  •  Tillamook

Snacks 

  • Flipz pretzels
  • Frito-Lay chips
  • Triscuit crackers
  • Wheat Thins crackers
  • Oreo cookies (Note: The AFL-CIO has endorsed the BCTGM’s boycott of Nabisco products made in Mexico because Mondelēz International, Nabisco’s parent company, continues to outsource product lines and middle-class American jobs to Mexico. Before you buy Oreos or any Nabisco-brand products, check the label to make sure you are buying American-made snacks. Learn how to check the label.)

Sunscreen

  •  Bain de Soleil
  •  Coppertone
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Make It a Union-Made Memorial Day Barbecue

Posted by on May 27, 2016

Via the AFL-CIO Now Website (Click the link)

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Hot Dogs, Sausages and Other Grill Meats

  • Ball Park
  • Boar’s Head
  • Dearborn Sausage Co.
  • Fischer Meats
  • Hebrew National
  • Hofmann
  • Johnsonville
  • Oscar Mayer

Condiments

  • French’s mustard
  • Gulden’s mustard
  • Heinz ketchup
  • Hidden Valley Ranch
  • Vlasic®

Buns and Bread

  • Arnold
  • Ottenberg’s
  • Sara Lee
  • Vie de France

Bottled Water

  • Pocono Springs
  • Poland Spring®

Beer

  • Budweiser
  • Bud Light
  • Leinenkugel’s
  • Mad River Brewing Co.
  • Michelob
  • Miller
  • Rolling Rock

See more beers from Union Plus.

Ice Cream and Frozen Treats 

  • Breyers®
  • Carvel
  • Del Monte Fruit Chillers
  • Good Humor
  • Hiland Dairy
  • Laura Secord
  • President’s Choice

Snacks 

  • Flipz® pretzels
  • Frito-Lay chips
  • Triscuit crackers
  • Wheat Thins crackers
  • Oreo cookies (Note: AFL-CIO has endorsed the BCTGM’s boycott of Nabisco products made in Mexico because Mondelēz International, Nabisco’s parent company, continues to outsource product lines and middle-class American jobs to Mexico. Before you buy Oreos or any Nabisco brand products, check the label to make sure you are buying American-made snacks. Learn how to check the label.)
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Make It a Union-Made Mother’s Day

Posted by on May 6, 2016

Via AFL-CIO Now blog

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Mother’s Day is less than a week away (May 8), so you have no excuse for waiting until the last minute to find a nice tribute for mom that also carries the union label. Our friends at Labor 411, the union business directory from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, can help you out.

If you want to go the traditional route with some top-of-the-line chocolates, take a look at these from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).

Chocolates

  • Ghirardelli
  • Hershey’s
  • Russell Stover
  • See’s Candies

If she deserves a little pampering, try health and beauty products made by UFCW and UAW members.

Beauty Products

  • Caress skin care
  • Dove beauty care
  • L’Oréal
  • Revlon

Union Plus members also receive a 25% discount on flowers from Teleflora or gift baskets from GiftTree.

If your mom enjoys an occasional libation—particularly on her special day—click here for a list of beverages, from small batch bourbons like Basil Hayden’s, Blanton’s and Booker’s; beers, from Budweiser to Goose Island; and wines and champagne, from fruity screw tops to fine vintages. Mother’s Day cocktail hour is brought to you by the Machinists (IAM), the Operating Engineers (IUOE), the Teamsters, the United Farm Workers, the UAW and the UFCW.

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Made in America: Union-Made Easter

Posted by on March 24, 2016

Via the AFL-CIO Now Blog by Kenneth Quinnell

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Easter is this Sunday, so here is a list of union-made in America treats to fill an Easter basket and other holiday accoutrements brought to you by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s resource site, Labor 411. These Easter shopping list ideas are brought to you by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), the Machinists (IAM), United Farm Workers (UFW) and the Teamsters (IBT).

Union-made Easter candy

  • Ghirardelli Chocolates
  • Jelly Bellies
  • Laffy Taffy
  • Mike and Ikes
  • Necco Wafers
  • Peeps
  • Thin Mints
  • Tootsie Rolls

And don’t forget to pick up a union-prepared Easter ham or lamb:

  • Appleton Farms ham
  • Black Forest ham
  • Butterball ham
  • Chiappetti lamb
  • Cook’s ham
  • Farmland Old Fashioned Pit Ham
  • Farmland Original Pit Ham
  • Fischer Meats lamb
  • Hormel Honey Roasted Ham
  • Tyson Foods ham

If you’re feeling like doing a little egg dyeing, try these:

  • Alta Dena
  • Horizon Organic
  • President’s Choice
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