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(From Page 1) Safeway, Fred Meyer, Albertsons, QFC, Roth’s Family Markets, Rosauer’s (Hood River), and Sherm’s Thunderbird (Roseburg). No big-box discounter in Oregon is union, and some are anti-union, like Wal-Mart. Among discounters, Costco pays workers the best wages and salaries. Some of its warehouse workers are represented by the Team- sters Union, but none in Oregon. WHAT TO BUY The following list of products is culled from union Web sites, union lo- cals, the Union Industries Show, the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department, and other sources. Always look for the Made in USA label before purchasing an item. TOYS, GAMES, HOBBIES: Col- orforms; Hasbro toys; Parker Brothers games (like Scrabble); sandboxes and playhouses by Fabriform; Fisher Price products; Golden Books & Gol- den Family Entertainment, Inc., activ- ity boxes, cloth blocks for infants, games and puzzles; Leister Games; Testor Corp., hobby kits and sup- plies; Eagle children’s plastic table sets; Ideal easels, games, puzzles, entire line of preschool materials; Etch-A-Sketch classic and color; Frustration; Ghost Writer; Glitter Writer; Michael Jordan Pro basket- ball set; Tot Traps drum set; Pfaltz- graff Cook and Serve Set, Tea Set; Wall Ball; Ertl cars, trucks, tractors, model and hobby kits; Lionel model trains; Radio Flyer wagons; Dixon Ticonderoga crayons, tempura paints, water colors; Today’s Plas- tics; Penn-Plax fish tanks, bird cages. HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Amana; Electrolux Home Products; Frigidaire; Kenmore; Tappan; Gib- son; Kelvinator; GE; Hot Air; White Westinghouse appliances; Cutco Cutlery; West Bend coffee makers; Falconer-Denver mirrors; Crystal de Lites crystal figurines; Samsonite/ Cosco card tables and chairs; Plano CD towers; Mirro, Regal, Vollrath, West Bend, Pyrex, All-Clad cook- ware; Swing-A-Way can openers; Ovens broilers, griddles, fryers; Thermador ovens, cook tops, hoods; Hoover vacuums; Vulcan ranges, deep fryers; Wolf Range Co. Stoves, cook tops, pots; Hollander pillows, comforters, featherbeds, fiberbeds, throws, blankets, mattress covers, and cuddlebeds; Fiesta glassware; Thermos glassware; Homer Laugh- lin, Lenox and Hall China. FRAGRANCES: Alberto Cul- ver’s Beyond, Command, Royal Command; Dana Perfumes’ Tabu, Ambush, Priorite, Canoe Sport, Ca- noe, Herbissmo; Lander aftershave; Revlon’s Charlie, Jontue, Jean Nate, Enjoli; Navy for Women; Chantilly perfumes; British Sterling cologne; English Leather cologne; Watkins fragrances. DECEMBER 1, 2006 COSMETICS: Revlon, Revlon Color Stay, Revlon Age Defy- ing, Moon Drops, Eterna, Fire & Ice, Ciara, Creme of Nature, Realis- tic, Fabu-Laxer, Roux Fanci-Full, Flex, Outra- geous. SPORTS EQUIP- MENT: E-Z Loader boat trailers, Spalding, Callaway golf balls; MacGregor, PowerBilt, Arnold Palmer golf clubs; Louisville hockey sticks; Reming- ton, Colt and Winches- ter firearms; Rawling, Riddell helmets, ice skates and roller blades; Bauer, Micron, Dau- oust, Mega, Lange, Cooper, Flak ice and in- line skates, snow boards, hockey and ski equipment; Penn tennis and racquet balls; St. Croix of Park Falls fishing rods; Kent sporting goods; FNT tennis balls, volleyballs and backstop netting; BARE wet- suits; Algoma sport bags; Wigwam Mills sports socks and hats; Aladdin Thermos products; Brunswick Corp., bowling balls, billiards. Do Buy List For The Holidays MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Baldwin pianos and organs; Bach, Buescher, Bundy, Selmer USA saxa- phones, trumpets, cornets, flugel- horns, trombones, baritone horns, tubas; Yamaha piccolos, trumpets, trombones, clarinets; Selmer USA flutes, clarinets, harmony clarinets, oboes, bassoons; Frank Holton. MEN’S DRESS SHIRTS: Brooks Brothers/Garland Manufacturing, Ken- neth Gordon, Phillips-Van Heusen, Ar- row, Geoffrey Beane, Calvin Klein, Stafford (at JC Penney). T-SHIRTS & KNIT SHIRTS: Athletic Cap Company and Crystal Springs Apparel, golf shirts; Lifewear Inc., cotton T-shirts, turtlenecks, sweatshirts and mock turtlenecks; New Jersey Headwear Corp., five- and six-panel ballcaps, bucket hats and vi- sors; Windjammer T-shirts, Henley shirts and golf shirts. JACKETS, COATS & SWEAT-SHIRTS: Ben Davis workwear style jackets, shirts, pants; Carhartt jackets and coats; Excelled Sheep- skin & Leather Coat Corp. varsity, bomber and motorcycle jackets; Perfect Shoulder/Snap N Wear quilted jackets, vests and sweatshirts; Protexall jackets, work shirts and pants; Reed Sportswear varsity, bomber and motorcycle jackets; Schott NYC pea coats, aviator jackets, motorcycle jackets; Windjammer jackets, sweatshirts, sweatpants and fleece-wear. NECKTIES & SCARVES: Artex Knitting Mills, Brooks Brothers, Kings Choice Neckwear Co. brands: Joseph Abboud, Theory, Ruffian, Bobby Jones, Paul Frederick and Ex- press; Mane Enterprises brand: Ba- nana Republic. GLOVES: Glamour, LL Bean, Mademoiselle, Paris, Lehigh, Reli- able Knitting, Knoxville Glove Co.; North Star Glove. BELTS, BAGS & WALLETS: Nord-Ray leather belts; American Umbrella canvas duffle bags and at- taché bags; Bags Specialists ETI/ Konvex totes, sports bags, barrel bags, briefcases, portfolios, garment bags, fanny packs and backpacks; S&D portfolios and address books; Scully briefcases; Stetson luggage tags; Heritage briefcases, shaving kits; 25 Drexel Drive, Americana, Elle, Falchi, Finesse La Model, Jay Herbert, Judith Leiber, Kenneth Cole, Koret, Migid, Sharif Designs Limited, A.L. Seamon, Art Craft, Capezio, EngerKress, Amity, Rolf, LaGarde; Judith Leiber, Members Only, Scully, and Stetson. MEN’S SUITS: Brooks Brothers: Golden Fleece; Hartmarx: Hickey Free- man, Hart Schaffner Marx, Ted Baker, Kenneth Cole, Tommy Hilfiger, Austin Reed, Evan Picone, Pierre Cardin, Cop- pley, Cambridge, Burberry, Gieves & Hawkes, Jack Nicholas, J. Press, Mat- teo Maas; Hugo Boss; Joseph Abboud. Shopping union is easiest for those who have Internet access and are comfortable with buying online. Sev- eral Web retailers have exclusively union-made clothing: nosweatap- parel.org, justiceclothing. com, and unionjeancompany.com. And the AFL-CIO has a list of union-made U.S.-made goods at www.shop- unionmade.com. SENDING YOUR GIFTS: Don’t forget: Gifts should be shipped via United Parcel Ser- vice, whose drivers are repre- sented by the Teamsters; or the U.S. Postal Service, which em- ploys members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, the American Postal Workers Union and Laborers. FedEx is nonunion. TOOLS: Tools sold under the brand names of Craftsman and Ridgid are not only American-made by mem- bers of the Boilermakers Union, but they are guaranteed for life; Snap-on tools, Armstrong tools, Klein Tools, Edgerton Forge Automatic wrenches; Sears, Agway, Razorback Garden tools, pitchforks; Klein Tools Inc. pliers, hooks. ENTERTAINMENT: Tickets to the Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theatre, or the Portland Opera will support musicians represented by Musicians Local 99 and stagehands represented by IATSE. The Musi- cians’ referral line will help you find and hire a union musician for your holiday party. Call 503-235-8791 West of the Cascades, or for the Southern and Eastern part of the state, contact Local 689 in Eugene, at 541-484-0951. CLOTHING: Ben Davis, Carhartt, Graybear, King Louie, Ko- diak Nemesis, Nemesis, Thinc Action- wear, Union Line, Oshkosh B’Gosh, Outdoor Outfit, Platinum Sportswear, Powers, Pro-Fit, Rubin Brothers, Stone Cutter, Sure-Fit, Team Safety Apparel, Time Out For Her, Union Jeans, Union Line, Wagoner, Wig- wam. United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 staffers leafleted the Wood Village Wal-Mart Nov. 21 to kick-off a national “Hope for the Holidays” campaign to try to turn anti-union Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest company, into a socially-responsible corporate citizen. “This is a values campaign about the obligations a giant corporation like Wal-Mart has to pay its workers good wages and provide them health insurance,” said Jeff Anderson, director of legislative affairs for Local 555 (standing left in the above photo.) Nationally, WakeUpWalMart.com is alerting people about the retailer’s latest anti-worker actions, which includes converting 200,000 of its full-time jobs to part-time, capping pay for all but the company’s top executives, and eliminating low-cost health insurance for new hires. Anderson said future rallies are slated Dec. 6 and Dec. 21. Locations have yet to be determined. NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS PAGE 5
