Union label

Union label

A union label (sometimes called a union bug) is a label, mark or emblem which advertises that the employees who make a product or provide a service are represented by the labor union or group of unions whose label appears, in order to attract customers who prefer to buy union-made products. The term "union bug" is frequently used to describe a minuscule union label appearing on printed materials, which supposedly resembles a small insect. [cite web
title=A Bug's Life
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accessdate=2007-08-17] [cite web
title=Proposal for Inclusion of Union Label Description in Bibliographic and Archival Cataloging Guidelines
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title=Use the Union Label
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Origin of union label

The earliest recorded examples of union labels were by San Francisco cigar makers in the mid-19th century. Originally used by unionized workers to differentiate their cigars from those made by non-unionized workers, the program spread in the 1870s to many other parts of the United States [cite book | last = Shah | first = Nayan | title = Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown | publisher = University of California Press | date = 2001 | pages = 158 | url = http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=DhU_kiO1_i8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP13&dq=&ots=D67Jj2tqDY&sig=cgYR5wrxB8wcde8C0iTSydSM1bw#PPP9,M1 | isbn = 0520226291] .

ee also

*Union Label Department, AFL-CIO

References


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