Reply #45: Union shopping

[eridani]

From Working Families E-active list--

You're just not the type to give a holiday gift that was made in a sweatshop. Shop with your conscience at The Union Shop Online--the AFL-CIO's retail store featuring top-quality, union-made-in-the-USA clothing and gifts. Click here to browse The Union Shop Online: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=38

With a hassle-free stop at The Union Shop Online, you'll find dozens of gifts that carry your values of social and economic justice--made by workers with union contracts that protect their wages, benefits and working conditions. Check out the cozy hooded jackets, matching sweatpants, baseball jackets and knit watch caps--proudly made by UNITE HERE members: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=40

Send your holiday greetings with justice-inspired, union-printed Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and holiday cards that show you care: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=39

How about a union-made game of Scrabble? An "International Babyhood of Snugglers" bib? Check out the games and kids' stuff at: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=42

Stuff some stockings with our "Got a Boss? Get a Union" and "Make Your Voice Heard" mugs, or golf balls, first aid kits and "Sound Off for Justice" whistles at: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=41

For the extra-special someone on your holiday list, here's an extra-special gift: the 12-piece "Lunchtime on Top of a Skyscraper" sculpture by Sergio Furnari, featuring ironworkers on a beam in the air: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/product1.cfm?SID=1&Product_ID=428

Deck the halls with a union-made, antiqued bronze-tone star, dangling from a red ribbon and wrapped in a plush velveteen black bag: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=39

Then kick back and listen to some music--maybe "The Essential Bruce Springsteen"--or watch a movie with a powerful message: http://unionshop.aflcio.org/shop/category.cfm?SID=1&Category_ID=8

At The Union Shop Online, you'll find something for everyone on your holiday gift-giving list. And you'll know your gifts come from and support workers who have the benefit of a union voice on the job.

Enjoy your holiday shopping!

Working Families e-Activist Network
Nov. 22, 2004

P.S. Lots of people you know also want to shop sweat-free this holiday season. Please forward this email to your friends, family and co-workers.

Need more worker-friendly gift ideas? Visit www.unionplus.org/gifts and www.ShopUnionMade.org

Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
http://www.unionvoice.org/join-forward.html?domain=wfean&r=tpzz1q71scL2