The ILGWU sponsored a contest among its members in the 1970s for an advertising jingle to advocate buying ILGWU-made garments. The winner was Look for the union label. The Union's "Look for the Union Label" song went as follows:
- Look for the union label
- When you are buying a coat, dress, or blouse,
- Remember somewhere our union's sewing,
- Our wages going to feed the kids and run the house,
- We work hard, but who's complaining?
- Thanks to the ILG, we're paying our way,
- So always look for the union label,
- It says we're able to make it in the USA!
The commercial featuring the famous song was parodied on a late-1970s episode of Saturday Night Live in a fake commercial for The Dope Growers Union. It was also parodied on the South Park episode "Freak Strike" (2002) in a public service announcement calling for daytime talk shows to have real, physically deformed freaks on their shows instead of freaks who are actually "stupid trailer trash from the South".
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