Union Member Hats

About 14 million Americans carry a union card, and plenty more wear the pride on behalf of a parent, a spouse or a local they grew up around. This collection speaks in the voice of the hall and the picket line. The badges are the phrases the market already searches for: UNION STRONG and PROUD UNION MEMBER, plain and loud. Around them sit the lines that make a member grin. CARD-CARRYING UNION MEMBER borrows an old accusation and wears it as a compliment. SOLIDARITY FOREVER nods to the labor anthem that the NYC-DSA hats and the Labor Notes store both put on cloth. AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL is the oldest rule in the movement, set in three lines. Then the jokes. THE WEEKEND IS A UNION PRODUCT is the thank-a-union frame that Stephen King and a folk song both made famous, shortened to something you can read across a room. LABOR DAY WAS MY IDEA claims the holiday as a personal project, and I WOULD PICKET AT MY OWN WEDDING admits what everyone at the hall already suspects. STRIKE READY and NEVER CROSSED A PICKET LINE are the flags for the days the contract talks go badly. Every hat is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. The weekend line and the wedding line each get a second colorway. Wear one to the hall, the cookout or the line.