Health Care Day of Action

We’re close to winning health care reform, but not there yet. That’s why AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka is asking workers to “take five” on Thursday, November 5—and make a call to your congressional representative.

Congresspersons and senators will have to make a choice, for or against reform in the last few weeks of this year. Help them make the right choice by expressing your views—for a bill that:

• Includes a public option to reduce premiums and keep insurance companies honest.
  
• Requires all employers to pay their fair share.
  
• Doesn’t tax the benefits we have.
  

Make that call!

Signs of Unity: Stories and Symbols of the American Union Label Movement is a book-in-progress that analyzes the graphic symbolism used in US labor union emblems, such as the AFL-CIO's "hand-in-hand" logo, from the beginning of the union label movement in the Victorian era through the present.  Its purpose is to demonstrate how these emblems reflect the attitudes of society and of the worker's self image, and the contribution that unions and their members have made to the fabric of American society and culture.

Signs of Unity is a project of artist and art historian Kim Munson.  She built the on-line labels exhibit for the Labor Archives & Research Center at San Francisco State University.

Munson plans to keep expanding this web site to enable union members to post stories about their unions' logos interactively.  She is soliciting union member logo stories.

Munson is working on the project in collaboration with the Union Label and Service Trades Department - AFL-CIO, and the Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. If you have a tale to tell, please fill out the online questionnaire.

See 100 Years Hand?in?Hand: a Brief History of the AFL?CIO Emblem pdf >