American Made Union Made Spotlight

In August 2019, I purchased an American/Union made pair of Carolina boots from Hampton Shoe. I wear these boots every day at work and walk five to six miles per day and could not be happier with them! They are durable, stylish, and most importantly comfortable! My boots were proudly made by the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 KS (Keystone State) in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania.  

I wanted to learn more about Carolina Boots, so I called UFCW Local 1776 and shortly after I received a call from their North-Central Director Chris Snyder.  Chris was very helpful and even took time out of his very busy schedule to talk to then send me a short bio about Local 1776. UFCW Local 1776 is the largest private sector union in Pennsylvania representing more than 25,000 workers, two hundred workers employed by the Cove Shoe Company in Martinsburg where they assemble a variety of world class, high quality boots for Matterheron, Double-H, Carolina, and Chippewa boots.  They also have contracts with the United States Department of Defense where they proudly make boots for our men and women in the military!  The UFCW Local 1776 logo is proudly displayed on their American made UNION made boots. 

UFCW Local 1776 not only represents boot makers but they also represent workers at grocery chains Giant Eagle, Acme, Ship Rite, Tops Friendly Markets and Kroger.  They also represent workers at Hershey Company where they make Kit Kats, Cadbury and Hershey’s Cookies ‘n Crème, Citterio USA (Italian Specialty Meats, Wise Potato Chips, Cargill Meat Solutions, JBS Souderton Beef, Knouse Lucky Leave and Musselman’s Juice, pie fillings and applesauce, Hanover beans and Vegetables, Mission foods and Empire Kosher poultry.  Which means there’s a very good chance that you support our brothers and sisters at UFCW Local 1776!

It is my hopes that this will be my first American made Union made spotlight.  I think it’s very important to support our brothers and sisters in other unions and I intend to use this website to spotlight a product each month.  Brothers and sisters if we don’t support each other we won’t survive.  Remember…Buy American or BYE America!