Last Day for 10% off Union-Made Stuff

[Omaha Steve]

https://unionshop.aflcio.org/

Just a quick reminder that today is the last day for you to use your special e-activist coupon for 10% off items at The Union Shop Online.

Coupon Code: AFL2008

Thanks for your support this year,

Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO

Thanks for being one of the best Working Families e-Activists during 2008. Together, we fought for America’s working families and helped elect a new president who shares our values. It hasn’t been easy, but thanks to your hard work, we have much to look forward to in 2009.

In recognition of your efforts, we’re offering you 10% off every item at The Union Shop Online through this Sunday. Just enter the discount code in your shopping cart when you’re done filling it up with goodies for your entire family, and we’ll take 10% off everything you buy.

Discount Code: AFL2008

From union-made shirts and hoodies to children’s books and the ever popular holiday cards, everything is 10% off for you. Just enter the coupon code AFL2008 in your shopping cart, and take 10% off everything.

Thank you for your support and activism over the years. And America’s workers thank you for buying American.

In solidarity,

Working Families e-Activist Network, AFL-CIO

P.S. Not sure what to buy? Here are some favorites from the AFL-CIO NOW BLOG and web team.



Mike Hall’s pick: If you’re like most of us this holiday season, thrifty will trump extravagant during your shopping adventures. But for under $25, I came up with a fun and somewhat practical six-piece, activist, pro-union gift set. Or, if you’re into quantity, you can wrap each one individually.

For just a buck each, you get the now classic “Kickin’ Ass for the Working Class” button along with a “Fight Ignorance, Not Immigrants” button and the Mother Jones “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflict” bookmark.




Next up is a set of four bicep-flexing Rosie the Riveter coasters, and with winter here, a practical AFL-CIO ice scraper—both for only $5 each. The big ticket item in our The Union Shop OnlineTM gift box is a coffee mug emblazoned with words to live by: “Got a Boss? Get a Union!”

It all adds up to just $23.

Seth Michaels’ selection: Anybody who’s jockeyed a cash register, an espresso machine or a mop bucket in recent years--and I’ve done all three--knows what the U.S. economy has really felt like over the past decade for millions of workers. Writer Barbara Ehrenreich captures it well in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. In this compelling and humane book, Ehrenreich takes a trip behind the scenes of America’s chain stores and hotels to highlight the day-to-day struggles of low-wage workers.



From Danielle Hatchett: I have never been one to choose plain, understated holiday cards. Christmas is my favorite time of the year, and I like to share that cheer with family and friends. The Circle Dance holiday cards are artistic, bold, colorful and full of movement. The message inside, “Together we will make a better world,” also is very appropriate in these tough times we’re facing.



Tula Connell's take: It’s never too early to start educating a new generation about the role of unions. Even if the gift is tongue in cheek, like a fun bib for the wee one identifying its wearer as a member of The International Babyhood of Eaters, Soilers and Snugglers. For the slightly older set, there’s a fine progressive preschooler counterpoint to Animal Farm: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type, by Doreen Cronin. I won’t give away the ending, but it’s udderly amazing. (There’s also a DVD version.) The older tykes also can don a T-shirt that promotes a tiny-tot version of the evergreen union motto: "An Owie to One Is an Owie to All." And for the truly budget-conscious, you can’t go wrong with the Workers Coloring Book, by Marilyn Anderson, for $1.50. After the holidays, these gifts would make a great set for baby showers--where you just might remind some of the adults about the role of workers and their unions in building this nation.

Our anonymous blogger says: Going Down Jericho Road, by Mike Honey, is finely crafted history, artfully written prose and a great story. Those would be reasons enough to read it. But Going Down Jericho Road is also more than that. It’s a beautiful moral drama of beaten-down workers who rise up against all the odds, organize, suffer great loss and ultimately win. It’s also a reminder (just in case we need one) of the raw and magnificent heroism in the union movement. Available in hardback and paperback.



One from Donna Jablonski: This cardigan is great. It’s dressy enough to wear for work, even with a skirt, but also nice with jeans. Can’t beat it. (It also comes in white.)



James Parks’ pick: “I Am A Man” poster/Dreams of My Father and The Audacity of Hope--what a difference 40 years make. My favorites both have to do with the struggles of people of color to have a better life. One is the “I Am A Man” poster, which depicts African American sanitation workers marching in Memphis in 1968 for a union and basic human respect. The other is a two-book set, Dreams of My Father and The Audacity of Hope, by President-elect Barack Obama, which gives us insight into the forces and beliefs that shaped his path in life. The fact that he will be president on Jan. 20 also is testament to the strength, courage and faith in the cause of justice that animates the entire progressive movement.

[ClarkUSA]

1. Thanks... this would be a great OP on GDP, for the presidential gear alone.

I'll be buying some stuff for the holidays.