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Article: Like the jingle, union label fades away.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- May 25, 2004
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Byline: Gregory Cancelada and Jack Naudi
Calls for "Buy Union-Made" and "Buy American" might appear nostalgic in a day when X-rays of American patients are analyzed by physicians abroad and U.S.-produced shoes are nearly impossible to find.
But the union movement hopes its 130-year-old message to buy products with the union label and more recent calls to buy American are reinvigorated amid the growing debate about overseas outsourcing of service jobs and the steady loss of manufacturing jobs in the United States.
"First of all, union-made in the USA is No. 1. If you can't find union-made, at least buy American-made," said Charles E. Mercer, ...