Union-Made in America Thanksgiving

[Omaha Steve]

PLEASE keep kicked!!!!

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Other-News/Union-Made-in-America-Thanksgiving

11/07/2013 Jackie Tortora



As you prepare to head to the grocery store to pick up your Thanksgiving dinner ingredients, double check your shopping list to make sure your Turkey Day fixin's are all union made in America. Check out some highlights from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor's resource site, Labor 411. Here are some of the best union-made Thanksgiving eats and tools from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM), Machinists (IAM), United Steelworkers (USW) and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).

Appetizers

Kraft/Nabisco crackers—BCTGM

Nabisco(Mondelez) crackers—BCTGM

Keebler (Kellogg) crackers—BCTGM

Turkey

Boar's Head—UFCW

Butterball—UFCW

Foster Poultry Farms—UFCW

Thumann's—UFCW

Cookware/Cutlery

Cutco knife—USW

All-Clad cookware—USW

FULL story at link.

[frazzled]

1. Much as I'm all for unions

I'm not going to be serving Nabisco or Keebler crackers at Thanksgiving. I do all my own baking, from rolls to pies. (Is King Arthur flour union?)
And my turkey won't be a mass produced Butterball. I've been getting Larry Schultz's organic turkeys these past years, from Owatonna, Minnesota. It's a family farm.

And I've had the same set of German-made carbon-steel knives for 25 years. I feel really bad, but they still work really well and I'm not going to buy the Cutco knife.

Does buying my brussels sprouts from local farmers count for anything? Cause I really doubt these guys are union, but they're not a corporate giant, either. Just farmers.

[Mika]

2. What award do you want?

Congrats. Life is good - for you.

[frazzled]

4. No award, thanks

And life isn't that good. I just like to cook.

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r