These emblems demonstrate that the employees who make the product or provide the service are union workers, and that they are treated fairly by their employers.

The ULS&TD also coordinates national boycotts that have been endorsed by the AFL–CIO executive council.

The department maintains and publishes the "Do Not Buy" list of companies being boycotted and the products and services involved.

Held in a different city each year, the show is a cooperative effort of unions and the companies with which they have contracts.

Unions and employers exhibit union-made and American-made products and services.