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Text on Button SAVE YOUR JOB VOTE NO Union bug 113
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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. 

Manufactured in the late 1970s or 1980s, during heightened union-busting 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. 

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Allied Label. (n.d.). Home: What is the Allied Label? Allied Printing. https://alliedlabel.org

Cushing, L. (2007). Proposal for inclusion of union label description in bibliographic and archival cataloging guidelines. Docs Populi. https://www.docspopuli.org/articles/UnionBug.html (Reprinted from “Proposal for inclusion of union label description in bibliographic and archival cataloging guidelines,” 2002, Progressive Librarian Journal, (21), 18-27, http://www.progressivelibrariansguild.org/PL/PL21.pdf )

Harvest Moon Emporium. (2025). Vintage SAVE YOUR JOB / VOTE NO political union campaign pin-back button [eBay listing]. eBay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/145628053757

National Labor Relations Board. (n.d.). Decertification election. NLRB. https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/employees/decertification-election

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