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‘Vote no’ campaigns are often associated with anti-union sentiment, whether that be a call to vote against union formation or, alternatively, in defense of unionization through a call to vote against measures that seek to union-bust. 

Marked as union made with an Allied Printing Trades Council union bug showcasing the geographical region associated with the unionized location as Los Angeles, California, but with a shop number printed next to the logo as ‘113’ (where as of June 2025, Allied Label’s shop database shows that label number 113 is associated with their St. Louis branch), the exact location of origin for this particular button is murky. 

Manufactured in the late 1970s or 1980s, during heightened unionbusting under the Reagan administration, this particular button was either addressing anti-union propositions, by instructing fellow workers to save their jobs by voting no, or it may have been anti-union sentiment ironically commissioned from a unionized button manufacturer.