{"id":2162,"date":"2013-10-03T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/make_it_a_union_made_halloween\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T15:01:09","slug":"make_it_a_union_made_halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/make_it_a_union_made_halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it a union-made Halloween! &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; float: left; border: 1px solid black; border-width: 1px;\" src=\"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/92_trick_or_treat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\">Have you bought candy to give out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween yet? Later this month, children across the country will cheerfully announce their presence at doorways hoping to receive sweet treats. While Halloween certainly belongs to children, adults get to make some decisions too\u2014especially when it comes to buying treats that are American- and union-made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n<p>This year, the National Consumers League and its labor allies are calling on parents to be smart about the candy they purchase, and try to buy union- or American-made products made by workers who are paid a living wage.<\/p>\n<p>A few labor-friendly candy manufactures include Nestle, Ghiradelli Chocolates, Gimbals Fine Candies, Just Born, Necco, Jelly Belly\u2019s Candy Company, and Pearson\u2019s Candy Company. One fly in the ointment, however, is child labor, which can be found in the supply chains of chocolate companies. Many chocolate companies have taken steps to trace their cocoa purchasing to reduce child labor from their supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0Union Plus, consumers can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionplus.org\/union-made\/halloween-treats\">view a list\u00a0of union-made candy choices<\/a>\u00a0provided by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM); snack foods by members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW); or fruit and nuts from members of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW).<\/p>\n<p>So get out there and vote with your pocketbooks and support worker-friendly candy manufacturers this Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you bought candy to give out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween yet? Later this month, children across the country will cheerfully announce their presence at doorways hoping to receive sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14052,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/14052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}