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Union Label Week 2005
APWU Members Urged to Take Part
APWU Web News Article #41-05, Sept. 6, 2005
Union Label Week 2005 began on Labor Day and runs through Saturday (Sept. 10). The message this year is: “ Add Value to Your Life – Buy Union!”
The special week is coordinated by the AFL-CIO’s Union Label and Service Trades Department, the nearly century-old entity founded to promote union-made products and services, especially those products and services identified by a union label.
“We work to promote the union label,” the federation’s Union Label Web site explains. “When you see a union label it signifies quality goods and services.
“These emblems demonstrate that the employees who make the product or provide the service are skilled workers who are treated fairly and decently by their employers.”
For further information, visit www.unionlabel.org, www.shopunionmade.org, and www.buyblue.org.
We hope you shop for union-made products during “Union Label Week, and we urge you to do more of the same later this year, during “Buy Union Week” (Nov. 25-Dec. 4). The day after Thanksgiving opens the holiday shopping season and leads into the most important week of the year for the retailing industry, and for union families who depend on their products and services “selling well.”
