{"id":2565,"date":"2012-10-17T13:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/stock_up_on_union_made_treats_for_halloween_fun\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T10:58:36","slug":"stock_up_on_union_made_treats_for_halloween_fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/stock_up_on_union_made_treats_for_halloween_fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Stock up on Union-made treats for Halloween fun &#8211; National Consumers League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- content_before_flip_start -->Later this month,\u00a0children across the country will cheerfully announce their presence at doorways hoping to receive sweet treats. While Halloween certainly belongs to kids, we adults get to make some decisions too. This year, advocates are calling on parents to be smart about the candy they purchase and hand out, find out if it\u2019s made by unionized workers who are paid a fair wage.<\/p>\n<p>A few labor-friendly candy manufactures include Nestle, Ghiradelli Chocolates, Hershey, Gimbals Fine Candies, Just Born, Necco, Nabisco, and Keebler.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0Union Plus, a Web site established by the AFL-CIO to provide consumer benefits to members and retirees of participating labor unions, consumers can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unionplus.org\/union-made\/halloween-treats\">view a list<\/a> of approved candy choices provided 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>\u201cNCL is happy to join with union allies and working families to encourage consumers to vote with their pocketbooks and support worker-friendly candy manufacturers this Halloween,\u201d said Sally Greenberg, NCL Executive Director.<!-- content_before_flip_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this month,\u00a0children across the country will cheerfully announce their presence at doorways hoping to receive sweet treats. While Halloween certainly belongs to kids, we adults get to make some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/2565"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10682,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/10682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}