one of the classic television commercials from the early 1980s featuring members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
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@carpesixties2583 жыл бұрын
I used to laugh at this when I was a teen but now it makes me cry. “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” 🥺
@ethan199420122 жыл бұрын
I'm a bit confused as to why you'd cry over a union commercial. Yeah, unions are great, and it sucks they aren't so common. But, what am I missing? Did you have a parent or grandparent in this commercial that is gone now? I'm not trying to be a dick, I just genuinely want to know why someone would cry while watching a video of a bunch of women singing an annoying song about looking for clothing that has the union label on it.
@bulkvanderhuge90062 жыл бұрын
@@ethan19942012 Because where we are now, notice these Union commercials ended in 1981, A year after Reagan got in office, and proceeded to implement Trickle Down, which started the whole Income Inequality, and he also busted Unions, which is why today we're calling getting a Union in an Amazon Warehouse "Historical" because the 1% and Corporations have had a death grip on the US since Ronnie Boy changed everything in their favor.
@ethan199420122 жыл бұрын
@@bulkvanderhuge9006 hey. I worked for Amazon for a time. I am ecstatic that the Staten Island Fulfillment Center is getting a union (which scares me, because Amazon is going to do everything they can, legal or illegal, to stop this). I just don’t get why you’d cry over a commercial with a bunch of women singing about unions…
@bulkvanderhuge90062 жыл бұрын
@@ethan19942012 I'm not crying over the commercial OP is. When that commercial was on TV I was 18 years old at the time, so, that would be why I would cry over it now, being 59 years old now.
@ethan199420122 жыл бұрын
@@bulkvanderhuge9006 so, you’re crying over nostalgia? Haha
@regulator582 жыл бұрын
Never have a more "regular" group of people appeared in commercials than in the old ILGWU ads. Classic.
@ii.cc. Жыл бұрын
this is real, effective diversity at its finest. we need support for labor at all levels
@stacychiarello12745 жыл бұрын
Honestly, this makes me cry, because my grandmother's all belonged to the union. Without that pension, my grandparents would never have been able to make it financially without it. She probably retired in the early 70s
@Salem-yy5wn2 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@fh1119 Жыл бұрын
My grandmother was a seamstress in the union too 60s thru 80s.
@freda2758 Жыл бұрын
Vote blue!
@sushicourier Жыл бұрын
Thanks to Reagan and his right-wing busting anti-union ways starting in 1981. Beginning with firing all the UNION air traffic controllers and continuing today. Thank goodness workers are again starting to organize themselves to fight back against unbridled corporate GREED and demand a living wage for themselves.
@kenetickups6146 Жыл бұрын
@@freda2758 Vote third party
@bbrief8 жыл бұрын
It's Christmas Day, and I'm missing my mom. She was a factory garment worker and a proud union member! God rest the souls of all those rough and ready women and men of her generation!
@oklahomorose6 жыл бұрын
John Cage My mother worked as a nurse in a Burlington plant in Texas.
@CowSaysMooMoo5 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about your mom...but 'rough and ready" lets save that for people at war, ok???
@MrJoseoz4 жыл бұрын
God bless you, thank u for sharing your thoughts about your mom and your thinking of her, my mom passed 2017 I think of her every day
@CowSaysMooMoo2 жыл бұрын
@@frumpycrust "gatekeeping words?" "Free grunt"?? What planet do you hail from? This is the internet. I will express my opinion freely
@abokwu2 жыл бұрын
god bless them
@dollyqueen1979 Жыл бұрын
Makes me cry , I miss you every day .. that's my grandma in the brown with a chunky face ❤️. Forever proud of you and will never forget you carol r Fairbanks ..can't believe my grandma was in this commercial
@TheKenny444411 жыл бұрын
I proudly support UNIONS!!
@ruthwezeman67002 жыл бұрын
I’m here watching this because I have a coat from the 50s with the ILGWU label, and John Oliver just played some of this commercial on this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight
@Kinseydsp6 жыл бұрын
The Good Old Days when things were well made in the uSA!
@lindabaron45843 жыл бұрын
You got that right! 👍🙂
@scjohnk3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately unions destroyed those companies and ran them into bankruptcy.
@jesseprather83172 жыл бұрын
@@scjohnk wrong corporate greed and sweatshops destroyed those companies
@scjohnk2 жыл бұрын
@@jesseprather8317 lol.
@mrswag28742 жыл бұрын
Lyrics: Look for the union label, when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse. Remember somewhere are unions sewing, our wages going to feed the kids and run the house. We work hard but whose complaining? Thanks to the I.L.G. were paying our way! So always look for the union label, It says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.!
@Kinseydsp9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this old commercial I remember them well. After My Mom died I was looking through her Old Clothes and found a blouse with the Union Label on it! Those days people could get jobs. I myself was forced to retire at 67 and I have no idea how I am going to make it! Our country is slowly dying sadly! When I find something I need made in USA I buy it. Got some Weather Tech Mats made in USA last year for my car! They are wonderful!
@Kinseydsp Жыл бұрын
@@Jack_Russell_Brown I am still around Robert and I still try to Buy Made in USA things when I can find them. And since 1983 My Car tag is a custom Tag US-MADE. Thanks for you Email1 I am now 75 yrs old.
@markstegeman43373 жыл бұрын
Amen for all Unions in America we still need to stand by and protect are rights to work and not be decimated against
@carpesixties2582 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@McPierogiPazza Жыл бұрын
@@roqua Wanker
@jtszabo16912 күн бұрын
Proud member of the Communication Workers of America
@P00katube8 жыл бұрын
This would make THE perfect WalMart intercom/car stereo prank!!!!
@rdsims8809 Жыл бұрын
Now, that was truly the First Rapp Song and first music video before MTV. Sing it, Children. Y'all should be getting good retirement pensions, now. And, for those whom have gone on to Garment Heaven, I know you're sewing White Robes , now Hallelujah, AMEN
@susanlevy1563 Жыл бұрын
My grandpa, who worked in a dry cleaning plant, was a lifelong member of the other garment union, the Amalgamated Clothing.Workers; they represented peoplle who made men’s and boys’ clothes.
@margaretgreen-cs2gy10 ай бұрын
🎶THANK YOU🎶 My Mother Lillian Green LIGWU. They were the BEST!!! May GOD BLESS THEM ALL🪡🧵🧵🪡 and GOD BLESS 🇺🇲 AMERICA 🇺🇲
@fh1119 Жыл бұрын
Brings back so many memories. My grandmother was a seamstress from the '60s thru the 80s and everytime this song came on the TV when i was growing up during that time period I'd say "there's grandma's song!"). It's a damn shame that we lost so many jobs so many people (made in America) now that everything is made overseas.
@eddiecam1012 жыл бұрын
wow this brings tears to my eyes..this was a frequent commercial, that came on WOR..Radio..NYC
@robertperry8144 жыл бұрын
40 years later and the American worker is still struggling.
@McPierogiPazza Жыл бұрын
Sadly, it's much worse. The full time jobs with benefits that provided for a family got turned into part time, minimum wage jobs with no health insurance and no sick leave. Union representation is way down too, which is no coincidence. Countries like Canada and Germany that have stronger economies than in the US have much higher union representation. What really gets me is how many union members vote against workers by voting Republican. So the older ones collect the pension the union secured for them while voting to ensure that younger workers struggle.
@vipermad3588 ай бұрын
This was on TV when I was a kid in the 70s. My mom always cried when she heard it. We need to get back to this, comrades!
@QueenOnlyMe13 жыл бұрын
For those of you bitching about unions, give us back your minimum wage, your vacations, your breaks, 40-hour work weeks, and all those other things you think are your "right" as workers. All the above came from the hard work of union workers who, at times, risked their families and very lives to make sure we all were treated as humans and not "disposable capital" (as some HRs call us). If the idiots in DC get their way, you'll sadly find out just what we were protecting for you.
@gIueeater3 ай бұрын
Bro has never been to a painter’s union (like buildings)
@lynnpayne95192 жыл бұрын
The need for fair wages and a decent standard of living did not stop after the 1980's . Several generations of American workers have struggled and suffered, unable to meet our basic needs. Solidarity forever ! What we do every day means something too. So why can't we get health care and food on our table after a hard day's work?
@Starius210 жыл бұрын
I TRIED TO "LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL"! BUT THERE ARE NONE TO BE FOUND! I instead got a "made in china/Bangladesh/Taiwan/etc."
@ChristopherSobieniak9 жыл бұрын
Found one at a Salvation Army thrift shop.
@Starius27 жыл бұрын
Christopher Sobieniak HOLY SHIT! SELL THAT SHIT ON EBAY!
@ChristopherSobieniak7 жыл бұрын
Starius2 I didn't buy it.
@Starius27 жыл бұрын
Christopher Sobieniak WTF!
@ChristopherSobieniak7 жыл бұрын
Starius2 I don't usually buy stuff I don't need in thrift stores.
@ChristopherSobieniak9 жыл бұрын
"I was just going to say, these garments are now made in Bangladesh. They have worked in sweatshops there for almost 2 decades, and they have finally had it. Dangerous conditions? Yeah, try being locked in a building, fearing that it will collapse in on you." The price we had to pay for giving up unions like these in favor of a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
@Bogframe9 жыл бұрын
+Christopher Sobieniak The ILGWU was formed largely because of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in NYC on March 25, 1911. People buying clothing made in foreign countries should remember that.
@ChristopherSobieniak9 жыл бұрын
Bogframe i hope.
@salmonjanet2 жыл бұрын
@@Bogframe Damn...im impressed...people on KZbin know what they are talking about! 🙌🙌 I was going to comment about the Triangle ShirtWaist Co but you beat me there!
@Salem-yy5wn2 жыл бұрын
@@Bogframe I had no idea- thanks for the info!
@McPierogiPazza Жыл бұрын
When I lived in New York, I'd stop by the former Triangle Shirtwaist building to remember those women. We still have their counterparts in the US too. They pick our produce, and they get treated like dirt for having to work here illegally when many of our families came here before there was an immigration/work papers setup. They just showed up and looked for work through fellow immigrants. There were big exceptions like with the Chinese Exclusion Act, but most Europeans had no barriers to living and working here
@1motorpsycho14 жыл бұрын
My mom used to work with a textile manufacturer in Philly (not sure if she was union). I used to hang out when I was sick and out of school at about age 6. Some of my favorite moments hanging out with those hard working women/men. Then Reagan came along and took care of that.
@slothbros760710 ай бұрын
and yet some people think Reagan was a great guy? I never saw that.
@Kinseydsp3 жыл бұрын
God Bless these Ladies I found an Old Blouse of My Mother with the Union Label still on it looks great.
@ritaz20083 жыл бұрын
I came here because of The Nanny! Lol The 90s sitcom. She said her cousing sings the "or blouse" verse. 😂 "Hum hum hum *or blouse* "!!!
@aylmerho65772 жыл бұрын
Look for, look for the union label, when you are buying a coat, dress, or blouse, Remember somewhere, our union’s sewing, our wages going to feed the kids and run the house, We work hard, but who’s complaining? Thanks to the ILG we’re paying our way, So always look for the union label, it says we’re able to make it in the USA.!
@17070robert11 жыл бұрын
I dedicate this to mt 2 Aunts who both had forty years in Ladies Garmet Workers Union
@kichukmenon2 жыл бұрын
This song is so good that you barely pause to wonder how many of them are dead now.
@TnseWlms2 жыл бұрын
I remember around 1980 when Osh Kosh replaced "Union Made" with "Genuine Article" on their labels.
@OsagieGuobadia17 күн бұрын
My History teacher from college remembers this commercial, back as a kid in the 1970s. : )
@hdaline69 Жыл бұрын
I remember these ads from my youth. They remind me of the SNL parody, "look for the union label when you are buying coke, hash, or pot"
@auxmike11 жыл бұрын
I never see the union label anymore!
@petey888713 жыл бұрын
@dbonacum And remember, you wouldn't have fair pay or a five day work week or safe conditions in the workplace without unions. It's all about balance of power. Neither the unions nor the companies should have too much. Similarly, neither the successes nor the failures of industry can be placed upon either one. Industry works best when bosses and workers work together.
@Musicradio77Network6 жыл бұрын
This is an updated version of this ad which was featured on the "Star Wars Holiday Special", this was from 1981, three years after this ad first appeared.
@BigDogCountry4 жыл бұрын
Star Wars holiday special. That was a steaming pile of crap.
@sixbrigands2 жыл бұрын
Solidarity forever.
@jorgefigueroa44374 жыл бұрын
On NYCTA buses, I remember some Union Label ads, the women on a Piano, 4 women like Phone call, and the most popular that I love it, the babies on red, and a baby girl holds the Union Label.
@TabithaElkins12 жыл бұрын
Look for the union label When you are buying a coat, dress or blouse. Remember somewhere our union's sewing our wages going to feed the kids and run the house, We work hard but who's complaining. Thanks to the I.L.G. we're paying our way. So, always look for the union label, it says we're able to make it in the U.S.A.
@BroWCarey7 жыл бұрын
I love this song, and this is a good performance of it.
@TS6815 Жыл бұрын
Growing up, when my family would be packed in the car and stuck in construction traffic, my dad would lean out the window at the eleven guys watching the twelfth dig and sing 'lOoK fOr ThE uNiOn LaBeL'
@McPierogiPazza Жыл бұрын
Ah, one of those guys. That's unfortunate
@cynthiapickett74036 жыл бұрын
Love the general, "Middle American" look everyone has from those last days of the period before MTV changed it all.
@modshroom6 жыл бұрын
the proletariat have nothing to lose but their chains
@sharonmcmenamin87905 жыл бұрын
Ray-gun destroyed all of this, damn.
@SkuldChan4210 жыл бұрын
I have a shirt with a union label, but it's a shirt I got at a union rally.
@roseannemariadagostino3469 Жыл бұрын
When I see this, I think of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In 1980 Women without a college degree could still support their families, because the women who died in 1911 already began to fight.
@abbieprice34303 жыл бұрын
This song was sung on an episode of Boy Meets World!
@kevinmurdoch418411 ай бұрын
Boy meets world brought me here. 😆😁 When cory and shawn walkout of turner's class.
@023achilles11 жыл бұрын
I was just going to say, these garments are now made in Bangladesh. They have worked in sweatshops there for almost 2 decades, and they have finally had it. Dangerous conditions? Yeah, try being locked in a building, fearing that it will collapse in on you.
@elizacooke81804 жыл бұрын
Now I understand the Nanny joke "orblouse"
@EbonyLuve14 жыл бұрын
This is a keeper. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. Willie certainly made the most of his 15 seconds of fame. He looked pretty good back then....
@cristinapena16722 жыл бұрын
0:40 Yes, i'm here because of John Oliver and the
@lednew201012 жыл бұрын
Madonna should sing this song at the SuperBowl in Indiana, where they're trying to strip union rights right now. Can someone get a Twitter or Facebook campaign going to her on this?
@DisabilityFraudKJW8 жыл бұрын
Can this be translated into Mandarin?
@mynamehappy5 жыл бұрын
Oh God, easily the best comment on this video. Lol 😂
@lauratharby65212 жыл бұрын
We need to bring the ILGWU back to the US
@rochelleb973 Жыл бұрын
I loved his jingle as a kid
@havingfun19685 жыл бұрын
I loved this commercial.
@samanson7463 Жыл бұрын
Where did All the unions go? My Dad was a proud Union man!
@paisleybabee3 жыл бұрын
Expect to see these labels return again in the near future! Build back better!
@5dancingisraelis535 Жыл бұрын
Hows that shit working out for you two years later? Is it built back better, yet?
@barnesfam13 жыл бұрын
My U.S History teacher showed us this video in class today.
@wchomes106 Жыл бұрын
this makes me cry
@Naminski1a2 жыл бұрын
South Park brought me here. Thanks, Comedy Central.
@jameswillett71863 жыл бұрын
This same commercial was posted by someone else on youtube. They said it was 1978.
@007sephiroth112 жыл бұрын
@petey8887 very well said my friend. that is precisely correct. economically optimal performance is made when workers and bosses are content with the quality and quantity of goods and services produced and sold well.
@tsnovak203 жыл бұрын
Today, they would do some awkward tiktok dance
@mrzoperxplex8 жыл бұрын
How much things have changed. Now this union (along with the entire apparel industry in the United States) is practically dead.
@havingfun19685 жыл бұрын
mrzoperxplex I think actually IT IS DEAD.
@dayzanu99934 жыл бұрын
My dad's factory was one of them. Both mom & dad were union workers before starting their own business. Bad US trade deals killed it. Just couldn't compete and pay union wages.
@mrswag28742 жыл бұрын
Lyrics: Look for the union label When you're are buying that coat dress or blouse.
@TnseWlms2 жыл бұрын
My grandfather managed a clothing factory. He was ahead of his time at recognizing his workers as humans, and even married one of them. He gave them very generous benefits and bonuses, but hated unions.
@McPierogiPazza Жыл бұрын
That's how unions affect industries. They raise the standard for pay, benefits and working conditions for union and non-union shops. It's no coincidence that union memberships and the American middle class have dropped at the same time.
@wavealip80592 жыл бұрын
I remember as a kid these were kind of a laughing stock. Now the American working class has become the laughing stock.
@loverosesbabyv12 жыл бұрын
I would like to see you try to support a family on minimum wage. I'm a single mother and it is damn hard to support a family on it.
@JoshSelley2 жыл бұрын
Has anyone noticed the last woman clapped on beat until she stood up?
@jorgefigueroa44374 жыл бұрын
The bus ads in New York of the Union Label campaign are popular, more than 5 versions launch and one very rare in spanish used on Bronx and Manhattan routes, also in Puerto Rico made a variation of this ad in 2008 to products made in Puerto Rico, "Busque el Sello, invierte en ti", in english means "Look the Label, invest on you"
@danielrodriguezrodriguez41511 ай бұрын
Here thanks to a reference to this song in John Scalzi's book (Starter Villain) 😂 🐬 🐬🐬🐬🐬
@RaptorFromWeegee Жыл бұрын
They changed the song! Souled it up a bit, like a gospel choir. LOL, too much to little too late
@djs23564 жыл бұрын
Time (over 40 years later) has proven them right.
@lelabotoxique6 жыл бұрын
WKRP in Cincinnati, season 4, episode 3.
@tylersharp13772 ай бұрын
First time I heard this jingle was on Boy meets world! 😁😭😂
@xonstage2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the good ol' days...
@ceasarandrepont53316 жыл бұрын
This is when the United States was America. Foreign trade is what fuck up of the country.
@jrcasselman3 жыл бұрын
I have heard mixed reviews about the ILGWU. My grandmother was a member and I heard she did not get much of a pension from them. One activist also told me the head of the ILGWU was also a member of the Trilateral Commission.
@anotherjoshua10 жыл бұрын
it says we're able to make it in the U.S.A!
@PJChgo1 Жыл бұрын
Sad that we lost this battle....the appeal of a cheap, foreign made $7 shirt at Old Navy or Walmart was just too strong for most Americans to pass up, no matter how often they might have thought about the union label or those hard working Americans.
@quartizejackson4732 Жыл бұрын
My uncle Bill in this😂😂😂😂😂
@ryanmikes56444 жыл бұрын
This song has great rhyme
@turbotime196413 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, there are no unions in China, so it's hard to look for the label these days.
@thelasttaarakian2 жыл бұрын
true, and even harder still there's no USA in China either...
@Freefalldreams12 жыл бұрын
I came here because I read about this song in an old library book of about the same vintage as this ad. Of course, what did I expect in the comments before I'd even turned on the computer? Exactly the sort of stuff that is in the comments. The ad wasn't very amusing, but the comments are, so thanks a lot.
@portlyncruise42603 жыл бұрын
YES!!!!
@imaginativelads13 жыл бұрын
LET'S GET BUSY AND BRING BACK THE UNIONS! WE HAVE A BIGGER OPPORTUNITY THAN EVER BEFORE! Stand for something people! Stand up before the corporations take the whole thing! We can do this, but not if you sit on your asses, and become apathetic. Have you had enough?
@visaman14 жыл бұрын
Now there is no union label anymore
@cardcreekdesign13 жыл бұрын
@GARN3240 - You should google the Lattimer Mine Massacre and find out what Unions are actually for.
@eddyvideostar5 жыл бұрын
At 0:01 seconds, at the start: This person looks like Paul Mc Cartney.
@potatoegirl315 жыл бұрын
I kinda throught she looked like Angela Lansbury! 😂 (fans of a certain former late night talk show host will get this)
@macoafi12 жыл бұрын
@notdonebefore minimum wage? You're forgetting, there'd BE no minimum wage without unions!
@luispardo40913 жыл бұрын
awesome
@mrwhoiamorwhatever13 жыл бұрын
u should see the south park version
@wheelygood914 жыл бұрын
@smcentee6922 I see, you blame the organised workers who fought exploitation for the decline of manufacturing industry in the US. It is in fact the company/business owners who have found workers overseas (or more commonly, over the border in Mexico) to exploit, workers that are not unionised and subject to harsh and brutal treatment by domestic and foreign bosses. It is honest of you to declare that you are against the American worker and would rather side with the exploiter than the exploited.
@Michael1966W7 жыл бұрын
Al Gore's mom use to have him sit on her lap and she sung this as s lullaby. He was a wee 27 years old
@paddedpencil9 жыл бұрын
this video is amazing!
@MrScottie68 Жыл бұрын
And today in 2022, it’s “look for the China label it says we’re no longer able to make anything in the USA”. We’re paying top dollar for non union made Chinese clothing that falls apart in no time flat….it’s disgraceful and sad.
@robertl304 ай бұрын
Like if John Scalzi's Starter Villain brought you here.