The 10 days following Thanksgiving are “Buy Union” week to encourage everyone to look for union-made goods and services when you buy for the holiday season.
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. Look beyond foreign-made electronics, trendy toys and gadgets to find enduring goods that are union made, or perhaps gift cards for union-productions, such as movies or sporting events, or union made food stuff — there are still many union-made candies, baked goods, spirits and specialty items. Go to dclabor.org for handy lists of union-made products and services. America's working men and women thank you! Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1937, the pro-labor musical revue, “Pins & Needles,” opened on Broadway with a cast of members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The show only ran on Friday and Saturday nights, because of the cast’s regular jobs. It ran for 1,108 performances before closing. Today’s labor quote is by Harold Rome, from "Sing Me a Song With Social Significance", sung here by Rose Marie Jun, from the 1962 revival cast of "Pins and Needles": Sing me of wars and sing me of breadlines Tell me of front page news Sing me of strikes and last minute headlines Dress your observation in syncopation! Sing me a song with social significance There's nothing else that will do It must get hot with what is what Or I won't love you.
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