DEC-Holiday-2009 :Holiday Issue
12/15/09
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This Year, Shop For
union-made goods
If you’re planning a holiday meal
or party this year, don’t forget to look
for the union label on food and pro-
duce that you buy, and purchase
goods at unionized stores.
Grocery, meat and in-store bak-
eries are unionized at most Safeway,
Albertsons, Fred Meyer, Haggens,
and QFC stores. (See the list of bak-
eries in the photo caption right.)
Additionally, Naps Thriftway in
Newburg has unionized clerks and
meat cutters, while Roth’s Family
Markets and Wizer’s stores have
unionized meat departments.
Shop with a
conscience
this holiday
With the rise of globalization
and outsourcing, the shopper’s
dilemma is especially acute when
buying clothes. You don’t want
your holiday shopping dollars en-
riching an absentee CEO who takes
advantage of the North Pole’s weak
labor regulations to force his work-
ers to churn out product night and
day year-round. (His apologists
will tell you he’s “jolly.” But there’s
nothing jolly about a repetitive
stress injury.)
What’s a conscientious con-
sumer to do?
Never fear! The International
Labor Rights Forum and Sweat-
Free Communities have stepped
into the breach with the latest edi-
tion of their Shop With a Con-
science Consumer Guide, which
lists tons of places you can buy
sweatshop-free clothing for every-
one on your list (www.sweatfree.
org).
And their 2010 Sweatshop Hall
of Shame (www.laborrights.org) is
a handy list of retail outlets that
don’t deserve your business until
the way they treat the men and
women who make their products
moves from “naughty” to “nice.”
They’ve even got these materi-
als available as PDF brochures
(Consumer Guide, Hall of Shame),
suitable for printing out and taking
with you to the mall. Heck, you
could even print out some extra
copies and hand them out to other
shoppers while you’re there, you
know?
So this year, don’t give lumps of
coal to the men and women who
make the gifts you give — shop
sweatshop-free!
(Editor’s Note: This article orig-
inally appeared at CtWconnect, the
online newsletter of Change to
Win.)
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Other unionized meat markets in-
clude: Gartners Country Meats in
Portland, M&M Inc. in Dallas, Ore-
gon, Jack’s Family Market in
Salem, Rick’s Food Market in Jef-
ferson, Rudy’s Newport Avenue
Market in Bend, Long’s Meat
Market in Eugene, and the Red Ap-
ple Market in St. Helens.
Grocery clerks and meat cutters at
these stores are members of United
Food and Commercial Workers Lo-
cal 555. In-store bakery workers are
members of Bakery, Confectionery,
Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers
Local 114.
WHAT TO BUY
Baked goods from Oroweat,
Franz, Williams, Fred Meyer
Clackamas Bakery, and Safeway
Clackamas Bread Plant are made
by members of Bakers Local 114.
Teamsters and Operating Engi-
neers represent workers at Tillam-
ook County Creamery, where
some of the best cheese in the world
is produced.
Teamsters also represent workers
at Darigold, Umpqua, Franz Bak-
ery, and Bimbo.
Foster Farms produces poultry
at plants in Corvallis, Oregon, and
Kelso, Washington, and Hill Meat
Co. in Pendleton produces fresh
and smoked pork products that can
be purchased at local grocers.
Workers at all these plants are rep-
resented by UFCW Local 555.
C ANDY / STOCKING STUFFERS :
Hershey’s; Jolly Rancher; Pot of Gold
chocolates; Ovation mint sticks; Fifth
Avenue; Zagnut; York Peppermint
Patties; Nestlé Treasures; Russell
Stover Candies; Laffy Taffy; Baby
Ruth; Butterfinger; BB’s and Pear-
son’s Nips; Jelly Bellies; Chocolate
Dutch Mints; Chocolate Temptations;
Dimples; Sweet Temptations; Her-
man Goelitz malted milk balls and
licorice; NECCO Wafers; Mary Jane
Peanut Butter Chews; Sky Bar; Thin
Mints; Bolster Bar; Masterpieces and
Clark Bar; See’s Famous Old Time
Candies; Frito-Lay chips and snacks;
Orville Redenbacher popcorn; Kraft
snack products; Godiva chocolates;
Coastal Berry Co. fruit and nuts;
Montpelier Almonds; Sunkist citrus
fruit; Sunworld citrus fruit; Maui
Pineapple Co.; Ghirardelli chocolates;
Brown & Halley candies; Corn Nuts;
Franz Cookies (made in McMin-
nville, Oregon by members of Bakers
Local 364), all Nabisco products,
Hostess, Entenmanns, and Kellogg-
General Mills cereals.
L IQUOR : 4 Roses Bourbon; After
Shock; Amar Di Amore; De Sabroso;
Bakers; Baronof; Barren Vonschoter;
Barton; Basil Hayden; Beam; Bel-
lows; Benchmark; Blanton’s;
Brigadier; Budweiser; Bush Pilot;
Cactus Juice; Calvert; Calypso Dark
Rum; Canada House; Canadian Bar-
clay; Canadian Hunter; Captain Gold
Tequila; Captain Morgan; Carribean;
Chi Chi; Coronet; Crystal Palace;
Dekuyper; Dubonet; Fleischmann’s;
Gilbey’s; Godiva; Grand Dad Bour-
bon; Imperial Blend; Jim Beam; Ka-
machatka; Kentucky Gentlemen;
Knob Creek; Labatt’s Blue; Mc-
Naughton; Molson; Moosehead; Mr.
Boston; Old Crow; Pallo Viejo; Parrot
Bay; Ron Rico; Royal Club Blend;
Sazerac Bourbon; Schenely; Sea-
gram’s; VO; Wild Turkey; Windsor;
Wolschmidt.
C OFFEE /T EA : Kivu bulk beans in
Fred Meyer stores are roasted by
members of Portland-based Bakers
Local 114; Boyd, USA, Melitta,
Maxwell House, Peerless, Superior
coffees; Tetley Tea, Mr. & Mrs. Tea,
S.S. Pierce Teas, Great Value, Best
Choice, Darj Green.
R OSES : Armstrong, Jackson and
Perkins (J&P), Meilland Star.
The Northwest Labor Press has
compiled a list of Web sites that pro-
mote union-made and American
made products. It is by no means an
all-inclusive list, but it does offer
products made by members of both
the AFL-CIO and Change to Win la-
bor federations.
Joanne Scott, a 30-year member of Bakers Local 114, displays one of her
holiday cake creations available at Roth’s Fresh Market in Salem. Roth’s
in-store bakery has operated union since 1966. The bakery continues the art
of old-style “scratch” baking of cakes, cookies, doughnuts, bread and rolls.
Other in-store bakeries under contract with Local 114 include: all QFC
Markets; Fred Meyer stores in SW Washington (except Battle Ground and
Fischer Landing); Fred Meyer stores in Oregon (except Redmond and
Tillamook); Oregon Albertsons Stores (except Bend/Redmond, Ashland,
Biddle Road in Medford; Sherwood, McMinnville, and Baseline in
Hillsboro); most Safeway stores in SW Washington and Oregon (ask if
bakers are union); Oregon City Haggen’s; Rosauer’s Supermarket,
featuring Oregon’s only union Mexican bakery line in Hood River; and
Sherm’s Thunderbird Market in Roseburg. Happy shopping!
How to Buy American
www.howtobuyamerican.com
A LL A MERICAN C LOTHING C O .
www.allamericanclothing.com
M ADE IN USA
www.madeinusa.org
U NION P LUS
www.unionplus.org/union-
made/holiday-gift-ideas
U NION L ABEL & S ERVICE T RADES ,
AFL-CIO
www.shopunionmade.org
B UY A MERICAN . COM
www.buyamerican.com
C HANGE TO W IN
www.changetowin.org/connect/2009/
11/sweatshop-free_gifts.html
M ID -W EST M ARKETING
U NION M ADE
www.unionmade.com
P OINTER B RAND
www.pointerbrand.com
U NION H OUSE A PPAREL
www.unionlabel.com
S HOP FOR A MERICA
www.shopforamerica.com/home.php
P OWELL ’ S B OOK S TORE
www.powells.com
U NION M ADE C LOTHING
www.unionmadeclothing.com
Union-made Ste. Michelle
wine rated No. 1 in the world!
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Washington’s only unionized winery and the largest wine producer in the state, landed the
No. 1 spot on Wine Spectator magazine’s top 100 list for 2009.
Out of 17,000 wines, the winery’s Columbia Crest 2005 Columbia Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon was judged
the best. It is the first time that a Washington wine has reached the top of the list.
United Farm Workers represents Ste. Michelle’s vineyard workers and Teamsters Local 117 represents the barrel
room, warehouse, production, shipping and maintenance workers at its Woodinville facility.
In addition to Columbia Crest and Chateau Ste. Michelle wines, the winery’s labels include Domaine Ste. Michelle,
Snoqualmie, Col Solare, NorthStar, Villa Mt. Eden, Conn Creek, Stimson Estate Cellars and Red Diamond.
Other union-made wines and champagnes in the U.S. include: Almaden; Andre; Arbor Mist; Bartles & James;
Boone’s Farm; Carlo Rossi; CC Vineyards; Saddle Mountain; Farron Ridge; St. Supery; C.R. Cellars, C.K. Mon-
davi, Charles Krug, Scheid Vineyards Inc.; Coastal Vinters; Cook’s; Cooperfield; Corbett Canyon; Cresta Blanca;
Deer Valley; DeFleu; E & J Brandy; Eden Roc; Ernest & Julio Gallo; Estate Cellars; Estate Inglenook; Franzia;
Gossamer Bay; Holland House; Hornsby’s; Indigo Hills; Inglenook Premium; J. Roget; Jacques Bibet; Jacques
Bonet; Jacques Reynard; Krug; Le Domaine; Lejon Vermouth; Livingston Cellars; Manischewicz; Marcelina;
Mogen David; Montpelier; Mystic Cliffs; Napolean; Oakridge Vineyards; Paul Masson; Peter Vella; Scheffield;
Select; Sonoma Tier; Stanford; Stefani; Taylor California Cellars; Taylor New York State; Totts; Tribuno Ver-
mouth; Turning Leaf; Via Firenze; Weibel; Wycliff; and Zonin.
Any of these union-made wines would make a great holiday gift.
NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS
DECEMBER 18, 2009