Posted: November 7, 2013
Source: AFL-CIO Now
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
Side Dishes
- Ocean Spray Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce—IAM
- Birds Eye vegetables—UFCW
Bread
- Pillsbury crescent rolls, frozen and bake rolls/breads—BCTGM
- Pillsbury pie crusts—BCTGM
- Stroehmann bakery products (for stuffing)—BCTGM
Dessert
- Sara Lee pumpkin, apple pie—BCTGM
- Mother’s Kitchen cheese cakes—BCTGM
- Nabisco (Mondelez) cookies—BCTGM
- Rich’s pies and cakes—BCTGM
Other
- Quaker Oats (for apple crisp)—BCTGM
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