Remember This?

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I grew up in the deep south, in a fiercely anti-union household, and I clearly remember the utterly cornball “Union Label” that appeared on television with surprising frequency. Even as I kid, I wondered why so many men were hanging out at the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Suffice it to say, their quest for “decent wages” to “feed and kids” and “run the house” priced them right out of the market.

A few years later, they tried to make the ad a little more up-to-date. The irony here is that the clothes they are wearing (ostensibly produced by proud American union members) are some of the most garish, ghastly garments ever to see the light of day.