Look for and ask for the International Allied Printing Trades Council label—the familiar “bug”—on all printed material.
The bug is your assurance of quality and craftsmanship. The bug also guar-antees that the men and women who work on your printed materials receive decent wages and benefits in plants that practice responsible labor-management relations. The label must include the city name and number identifying the exact union printing plant where the work was produced.
The Allied Printing Trades Council is made up of the Printing, Publishing, and Media Workers Sector (PPMWS) of the Communications Workers of America and the Graphic Communications Conference (GCC) a division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Both the GCC and the PPMWS have distinct labels identifying the shop at which the materials were printed. ■
Is it possible for a print shop organized by the United Steelworkers to affiliate with the Allied Printing Trades Council?
David, you would need to contact the Allied Printing Trades Council to see if that is a possibility. Check on this link to start. http://files.cwa-union.org/alliedlabel/allied-councils/
Good Morning,
How do I become a member of the PPMWS, I make tee shirt/dress shirts and would like to supply my union City Union of Baltimore with our tees, but I don’t have a union label (bug). thanks for any information you can give me.
You can contact the PPMWS directly at Phone: 202-434-1248
Dan Wasser is the President. His assistant can be reached at kbroadbent@cwa-union.org
2017 Update for PPMWS information:
President D. Wasser, Print Sector Hearquarters have a new address:
219 Fort Pitt Boulevard, Third Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15222-1560
Administrative Assist: mmikesell@cwa-union.org
We are a Union Printer in MS with the Local 3511. Our bug has CWA on it. We have a request for our bug to have Allied Printer on it. Can we use the Allied version? Do we have to submit for approval?
Bryan,
You need to contact Dan Wasser regarding your question. He can be reached at dwasser@cwa-union.org. Dan is the president of the CWA Printing Sector and also of the Allied Printing Trades Council.
Looking for a list of Allied Trades Union printers in several states or where online a list is to locate a printer. I have the # trying to identify
If you go to alliedlabel.org they have a link to find a shop.
Where can I find a list of allied printers in Houston, Texas.
If you go to alliedlabel.org they have a link to find a shop.
Go to Local 4535M.org for our list of union shops in the Houston Tx area