This holiday, give the gift of good union jobs

 As you search for perfect holiday gifts for your loved ones, remember to look for the union label so your presents give the gift of good jobs. Below is a wide range of gift possibilities, from clothes to games to sports equipment and more, made by union-members across the country.

The Washington State Labor Council’s Union Goods and Services Committee has posted Buy Union, Washington! providing links to various resources — both in the state and nationally — to identify union-made goods and services, and unionized stores where you can do your shopping. Another great resource is Labor 411, which regularly updates lists of union-made food, beverages and gifts for various specific occasions. For example, check out it’s union-made shopping lists for general holiday gifts, gifts for her, gifts for him, and gifts for kids.

The following list was compiled by the AFL-CIO from Union Plus, Labor 411, the AFL-CIO Union Label and Service Trades Department (UL&STD), and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) website.

Apparel and Accessories

• Carhartt
• Filson clothes and bags
• Garnier Fructis hair care products
• Joseph Abboud
• Nunn Bush shoes
• Phillips-Van Heusen
• Red Wing Shoes
• Shinola watches
• Winston Leather
• Wolverine boots
• More clothing and apparel

Games and Toys

• Boggle
• Candy Land
• Clue
• Connect Four
• Cranium
• Easy-Bake
• The Game of Life
• G.I. Joe
• Heroscape
• Marvel & Disney toys and games made by Hasbro
• Memory
• Mousetrap
• Mr. Potato Head
• My Little Pony
• Operation
• Play-Doh
• Rubik’s
• Sorry
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Tinkertoy
• Tonka
• Transformers
• Trivial Pursuit
• Twister
• Weebles
• Yahtzee
• Check out other games.

Sports Equipment

• American Athletic gym equipment
• Bell Sports
• Ebonite Bowling Balls
• Louisville Slugger
• Remington Arms
• Standard Golf Company
• Wilson Sporting Goods
• Other sports equipment

Tools

• Armstrong
• Black & Decker Tools
• Channellock
• Craftsman
• Cutco knives
• Klein Tools
• Ridgid
• SnapOn Tools
• Stanley Hand Tools
• Union Tools
• Warwood
• More tools

Stocking Stuffers

• Rayovac batteries
• Bic lighters
• Allan Traditional Candy Canes and other candies
• Boyer Mallo cups and other candies
• Brown & Haley holiday gift boxes, baskets, tins and packages
• Dare Foods Limited variety of gums, jellies, hard candy and gift tubs
• Frankford Candy & Chocolate holiday candy toys, gift baskets, tins boxes and packs
• Ghirardelli chocolates
• Hershey chocolates
• Jelly Belly
• Jordan Almonds
• Laffy Taffy
• Linette Quality Chocolates
• Nestle chocolates
• Pearson’s Candy Company
• Sconza Candy Company
• See’s Candies
• Other union-made snacks

Wine and Spirits

• Andre champagne
• Arbor Mist
• C.K. Mondavi
• Chateau Ste. Michelle
• Cook’s champagne
• Gallo Estate wines
• Gallo of Sonoma
• St. Supery
• Tott’s champagne
• Turning Leaf
• More wine and spirits

Beer

• Bass Pale Ale
• Beck’s
• Blue Moon
• Budweiser
• Busch
• Killian’s
• Kirin
• Labatt Blue
• Land Shark Lager
• Michelob
• Mickey’s
• Miller
• Molson Canadian
• O’Doul’s
• Olde English 800
• Pabst Blue Ribbon
• Red Stripe
• Rolling Rock
• Sam Adams
• Schlitz
• ShockTop
• More union-made beer

If You’re in the ‘Big Spender’ Category

• Cadillacs
• Ford Mustangs
• Jeep
• See more cars made by UAW and non-auto UAW-made products.

Check out many other gift ideas from GetItUnion.com by the Fire Fighters (IAFF).

Finally, if you are traveling and stay in a hotel, make sure it is a fair hotel!

Healthy-In, Healthy Out 

Healthy In Healthy Out 2nd version flipbook here.

After more than two years of dedicated work, the efforts to produce a best practices manual for reducing fire fighter risk of exposures to carcinogens has come to fruition. Healthy In, Healthy Out is now available for all fire fighters in Washington. To get copies for your members, call the WSCFF office at 360-943-3030.

Copies are now available in Spanish or click for flipbook.

Watch the Healthy-In, Healthy Out VIDEO for more best practices protocols.

Our gratitude to Beth Gallup of Local 1747 for leading the effort and the team of dedicated members and professionals who worked diligently to help our members protect themselves: Bob Carroll, Local 452; Charles Cordova, Local 2898; Bob Dirham, Local 1296; Brian Dodge, Bates & Local 1747; Scott Ervin, Local 2024; Dan Griffey, Local 2394; J. Havner, Local 27; Bill Hoover, Local 2545 & Firefighters Cancer Support Network; Jenny Keizer, Kent Fire Department; Dean Shelton, Local 3219 & WSCFF 10th District Rep.; Brad Thompson, Valley Regional Fire Authority; Adam Villard, Local 3811.

Funding and support for this project has been provided by the State of Washington, Department of Labor and Industries, Safety & Health Investment Projects.