Before you put together your Thanksgiving dinner shopping list, check out this list of union-made in America food and cookware items essential to any traditional family Thanksgiving feast.
Here are some of the best union-made Thanksgiving eats and cookware from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM); Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers (GMP); 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 Farms – UFCW
- Thumann’s – UFCW
SIDE DISHES
- Ocean Spray whole berry cranberry sauce – IAM
- Birds Eye vegetables – UFCW
BREAD
- Pillsbury crescent rolls, frozen and ready to bake rolls/breads – BCTGM
- Pillsbury pie crusts – BCTGM
- Stroehmann bakery products (for stuffing) – BCTGM
DESSERT
- Sara Lee pumpkin, apple pie – BCTGM
- Mother’s Kitchen cheesecakes – BCTGM
- Nabisco (Mondelez) cookies – BCTGM
- Rich Products pies and cakes – BCTGM
COOKWARE/CUTLERY
- Cutco knives – USW
- All-Clad cookware – USW
- Corning – USW
- Ware – USW
- Fiestaware – GMP
- Anchor Hocking – GMP
(Compiled by the AFL-CIO’s Union Label and Service Trades Department, Union Plus and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor’s resource site, Labor 411.)
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