Labor 411's Union-Made Thanksgiving Shopping List

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

Search more union-made food from Labor 411.

Jackie Tortora blogs for the AFL-CIO. This post first appeared on Labor’s Edge and is republished with permission.