Union label

The term "union bug" is frequently used to describe a minuscule union label appearing on printed materials, which supposedly resembles a small insect.

[1][2][3] The invention of the union label concept is attributed to the Carpenter's Eight-Hour League in San Francisco, California which adopted a stamp in 1869 for use on products produced by factories employing men on the eight- (as opposed to ten-) hour day.

In 1874, that city's unionized cigar-making workers created a similar "white labor" label to differentiate their cigars from those made by poorly paid, non-unionized Chinese workers.

By 1909, the American Federation of Labor had created its Union Label Department.

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IWW Universal Label; Printing Co-op; I.U. 450 Detroit; Abolish the wage system; abolish the state; all power to the workers!
Industrial Workers of the World union label used by Black and Red Press ca. 1973.
A loaf of bread bearing the union label of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union