Can any print shop print a union label?
No, only a print shop that 1) has its production employees unionized (usually by the CWA or GCC) and 2) the print shop has a valid union label license agreement. Don’t all unionized printers have a union label license agreement? No. Not all union shops have all of their production departments unionized. Plus, even if a unionized print shop does have all of its production departments unionized, the company and the union (or trades council) may not have a signed union label license agreement. There are unionized print shops that don’t have all of their production departments organized by a union, but still have a union label license agreement. In these cases, the union label work is usually sent out to a union label licensed subcontractor to finish the job. Can a nonunion print shop print the union label? No. Can a nonunion prepress house work on a union label print job? No. Can a nonunion bindery work on a union label print job? No. However, there have been cases in the past where the u
