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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

Del Monte Blue Diamond Almonds—BCTGM

Kraft/Nabisco 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

Betty Crocker Specialty Potatoes—BCTGM

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 pies and cakes—BCTGM

Nabisco cookies—BCTGM

Other

Kellogg’s Corn Flakes (to top those sweet potato casseroles)—BCTGM

Quaker Oats (for apple crisp)—BCTGM

What are some of your favorite union-made Thanksgiving ingredients? Log in and comment below.

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This has been reposted from the AFL-CIO.

Posted November 17, 2012 at 8:00 am, in Allied Approaches, From AFL-CIO

Tags: Labor 411, Thanksgiving, union made