Union Label Week officially ended yesterday but you can – and should -- support good jobs by looking for union-made goods and union-produced services when you shop.
We have links to searchable databases of union-made products – everything from sunscreen to lawn and garden products, beverages and food -- provided by the AFL-CIO’s Union Label and Services Trades Department (which also has a handy app; search for "Union Label"), and Labor 411’s guide. “In these difficult times, with constant attacks on workers’ rights and union rights, we need to make an extra effort to look for the quality and value represented in union-made products and services,” says Union Labor president Richard Kline. “When you buy union, you’re supporting good jobs in American communities, jobs that provide living wages and benefits, safe working conditions and dignity and respect for work.” For all the latest local labor news and calendar postings, check out our website at dclabor.org, where you can also subscribe free to “Union City,” our award-winning daily newsletter. In today’s labor history, Polish, Lithuanian and Slovak miners were gunned down on this date in 1897 —19 dead, and more than 50 wounded — by the Lattimer Mine's sheriff deputies in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. Most were shot in the back. The miners were marching peacefully and without weapons for collective bargaining and civil liberty. Today’s labor quote is by longshore union leader Harry Bridges, who said: “Labor cannot stand still. It must not retreat. It must go on, or go under.”
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