Our Picks for Holiday Gift-Giving

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/12/09/our-picks-for-holiday-gift-giving/

by Tula Connell, Dec 9, 2008

Now more than ever, this holiday season is the time to support our flailing economy with holiday gifts that are union made and made in America. The AFL-CIO Union Shop Online™ offers CDs, DVDs, books, buttons and more. Our blog and Web team has assembled our favorites here. Items ordered no later than Dec. 17 are guaranteed for delivery in time to be wrapped and ready.



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Mike Hall’s pick: If you’re like most of us this holiday season, thrifty will trump extravagant during your shopping adventures. But for under $25, I came up with a fun—and somewhat practical—six-piece, activist, pro-union gift set. Or, if you’re into quantity, you can wrap each one individually.

For just a buck each, you get the now classic “Kickin’ Ass for the Working Class” button along with a “Fight Ignorance, Not Immigrants” button and the Mother Jones “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflict” bookmark.

Next up is a set of four bicep-flexing Rosie the Riveter coasters, and with winter here, a practical AFL-CIO ice scraper—both for only $5 each. The big ticket item in our The Union Shop Online™ gift box is a coffee mug emblazoned with words to live by: “Got as Boss? Get a Union!”

It all adds up to just $23.

Seth Michaels’ selection: Anybody who’s jockeyed a cash register, an espresso machine or a mop bucket in recent years (and I’ve done all three), knows what the U.S. economy has really felt like over the past decade for millions of workers. Writer Barbara Ehrenreich captures it well in Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America. In this compelling and humane book, Ehrenreich takes a trip behind the scenes of America’s chain stores and hotels to highlight the day-to-day struggles of low-wage workers.



From Danielle Hatchett (Web coordinator): I have never been one to choose plain, understated holiday cards. Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I like to share that cheer with family and friends. The Circle Dance holiday cards are artistic, bold, colorful and full of movement. The message inside, “Together we will make a better world,” also is very appropriate in these tough times we’re facing.

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