Look for the Union Label

After all these years, I can still hear the tune and most of the words that were being sung in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union commercials on TV as I was growing up. Fortunately, the Internet helped me find the lyrics as well as the sheet music:

Look for the union label
when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse.
Remember somewhere our union's sewing,
our wages going to feed the kids, and run the house.
We work hard, but who's complaining?
Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way!
So always look for the union label,
it says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.!

Of course, the union information coming into my childhood home also informed us which manufacturers were union companies and which weren't—and in effect told us which clothes to buy and which to avoid if we wanted to support labor. Just like now with buying from “blue” companies—those companies that are primarily Democratic supporting.

I still look for that union label—also called the “union bug.” Sometimes I find it and sometimes I don’t. I was impressed with the number of campaign signs at the 5^th District dinner in Forest that had the union logo. And, of course, I was not really surprised with the signs that didn’t support unions.

Does your candidate support union printers? Check his (or her) campaign sign for a bug and see.