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Union members around the country are standing up for union jobs by demanding that their uniforms are made in union shops, not sweatshops, because:
Many union members make uniforms and work clothes for their living. These workers aren't getting rich, but they can earn decent wages and benefits to provide for their families, while working with dignity.
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Every one of those workers' jobs is threatened by competition from sweatshops, both in the US and abroad, where workers are paid poverty wages and deprived of the right to organize.
Hundreds of thousands of union members wear uniforms on the job—police officers, firefighters, bus drivers, letter carriers—and they have the power to preserve and create thousands of union garment jobs.
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