Trick Or Treat: Union And Union-Free Halloween Candies

October 30, 2014

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Every Halloween, millions of trick or treaters will be dipping their little hands into bowls of candy.

While Mars candy is union-free, as is the H.B. Reese Candy Company (Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups) unions like to broadcast which candies are union-made.

Here is the list of union-made candies, via Labor411.org:

Phillip October 31, 2014 At 2:19 pm

The best selling candy bars on our shelves seem to be now made nonunion nonunion can bars are the number one sellers

A.D. November 1, 2014 At 11:47 am

REESE’S is a BRAND made by The Hershey Company….who makes Herahey Bar, KitKat, Reese’s, Jolly Rancher and more. ….a UNION company…..it’s all over their own website, and you can click onto their Brands link to find Reese’s too:
http://www.thehersheycompany.com/newsroom/news-release.aspx?id=302700

- Editor November 1, 2014 At 6:19 pm
  
  To clarify…
  
  And Hershey, which BCTGM’s predecessor unions first organized during World War II, now has only two unionized plants in the U.S., one in Hershey and the other, in Hazelton, Penn., with the United Food and Commercial Workers. There’s even a non-union Hershey’s plant in Hershey, making Reese’s peanut butter cups. “But at least at that plant, they kept wages at par with wages in our plants,” Clark adds.
  
  Source: Bitter chocolate: Hershey’s candy closes a plant » peoplesworld
  
Kevin November 3, 2014 At 1:49 pm

I think many from the list fit into the Hershey description above. I worked for one of the companies listed and only 25% of their plants are unionized– yet unions are touting that their candy is union-made. Actually, very little of it is.