Union Label

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Union Label

A label on a product indicating that the employees who made the product are represented by a labor union. Union labels are affixed to encourage interested parties (such as other union members or persons who support unions) to buy such a product rather than a similar product made by a non-union company.
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In its rhetoric, labour's role in forging a new society was linked to the union label, whose legitimacy and even holiness were warranted, declared one letter writer, by the Bible itself:
It was a religious line of argument the Journal itself endowed with the authority of an article in 1929: "The union label aspires to be the emblem of humanism, even as the cross is the symbol of Christianity.
In service of the lowly Nazarene Carpenter: the English Canadian labour press and the case for radical Christianity, 1926-1939
Schmidt's first job in the brewery was gluing union labels on boxes of bottles of beer in 1939.
Philip Schmidt, Olympia exec, dead at 81
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