Anyone here remember the "Look For The Union Label" ads?

[Diamond_Dog]

My twenty something son just showed me this and said, Mom, did they really show this on TV back then? They really advertised being in a union? I said, yes indeedy they did!

[SheltieLover]

1. Yup!

[Diamond_Dog]

3. All 5 of us in my family

Are former or current union members.

[SheltieLover]

5. Awesome!!!

My dad was.

[Lochloosa]

6. IBEW for years.

[samplegirl]

8. America

built on Unions!

[Diamond_Dog]

18. Yes ma'am!

[Dave in VA]

2. Absolutely!

Wish they had never stopped showing these.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Agree.

[wendyb-NC]

7. I sure do.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I remember that song, as well.

[MuseRider]

10. They always seemed to have

a very catchy ad on TV. That song, Look for the Union Label. I am surprised I do not remember more, I rarely forget a good jingle.

[TomSlick]

11. I remember the ads - catchy tune.

[Trueblue1968]

34. VERY cool tune.

[TomSlick]

35. I can still sing the song after all these years.

Look for the union label. It says we're able to make it in the USA.

[Deuxcents]

12. Proud CWA member

I’m retired now but keep in touch.

[kacekwl]

13. Absolutely. My dad was a big union guy. He was

Recording Secretary, Treasure and Vice President of his local. I remember on vacation one time he chastised a guy for drinking scab Coors beer. Lots of good stories.

[SeattleVet]

14. A cousin was the office manager for the local ILGWU office when those ads were made.

My father was a Teamster for several years, then was with the Social Service Employees Union in NYC when he worked as a welfare caseworker.

My mother was with the American Federation of Teachers for many years. Her father (my grandfather) was a 40+ year Teamster (over 40 years delivering milk for the Borden Company).

My wife was a member of Boeing's SPEEA Engineer's union.

Coming from a strongly pro-union family I find it a little ironic that I never held a job that offered me the opportunity to join a union. First I did 12 years in the Air Force, then was an officer (Assistant Vice President) in the IT department of a huge bank in NYC, then a part-time federal IT contractor here in Seattle. (But I have walked a picket line in support of the engineers when SPEEA went on strike several years ago.)

[niyad]

15. Of course we do!

[BigmanPigman]

16. Remember the pot growers union from old SNL?

[orleans]

30. lol +1 nt

[SharonClark]

17. Absolutely YES

My family, although not me, included Teamsters, IBEW, AFSCME, Bricklayers, and Steelworkers. They put the next generation thru graduate school.

[cloudboy07]

19. remember all to well back in the 60's !

[Laffy Kat]

20. I still remember the song.

Funny, seeing that as a kid, I always wanted a union job. About eight years ago, I finally got one and I love the job, feel protected, and appreciate being in a union.

[DENVERPOPS]

21. And then came

Reagan/HWBush/Cheney/et al and their busting of the Air Traffic Controllers Union, which signaled to every corporation in America that it was open season on Union busting....... And the regulatory NLRB has been castrated ever since..................

[Hekate]

22. Yes!

[ggma]

23. My grandmother

told me, when I was a kid, that if there's a union where you work, you join it, no questions asked. I have always followed that advice.

[moonshinegnomie]

24. then theres this version

[Akoto]

25. As a medical marijuana card holder...

That made me laugh my behind off. Such a great parody of such a great cause.

[LoisB]

26. Sure do.

[C Moon]

27. Look at the diversity in the singers.

If that were a gop ad, it would be all white men and one person of color.

[soldierant]

29. We were late getting TV,

but I remember the song from radio.

[alphafemale]

31. And WalMart used to promote

Made in America products

Fancy that

[3catwoman3]

32. I remember the ad and the...

…fugly clothes, too.

[electric_blue68]

33. Yup.

[TomSlick]

36. My dad was a salaried employee of the old Reynolds Metals.

As a company man, dad had little use for the union.

As the son of a company man, I was expected to work at an aluminum plant during the summers. The money was good but the conditions were awful. Despite "right to work" laws, I joined the United Steel Workers. It made dad crazy.