Thursday, January 26, 2012

Songs to Fight the Plutocracy by: "Union Label"

Listen up, children: not so long ago the question wasn't "is it made in America;" the question was "is it made by American union members." The competition 30 years ago wasn't between slave labor in Asia and wage-slave labor in America; it was between non-union labor in the Carolinas and Mississippi and union labor in Massachusetts and Michigan.

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One of the classic television commercials from the early 1980s featuring members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

The ILGWU was once one of the largest and most powerful unions in the country. It earned its radical cred, having been tested literally by fire in the great Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy of 1911.

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