Union Line Says ?Bah Humbug? to Occupiers

Occupy Memphis in Union Line jackets

Occupy Supply has spent literally tens of thousands of dollars on union made Union Line goods over the course of the past few months. ?Their quilt lined work jackets, blankets and fleece ?have become ubiquitous at over 70 occupations across the country, and occupiers have been asking for them every day as the weather gets colder.

Back on November 15, we wrote a purchase order for 250 more jackets that we placed through our embroiderer, but Union Line owner Dave Rubin said they couldn?t ship until December 31 because they were working on a large contract for military pants. ?We said okay, and put the jackets on the distribution schedule for the first week in January.

As many people know, we had problems with our embroiderer (who also did our glove and sock imprints) and were literally down to the wire at Christmas fulfilling orders we sold through the Occupy Supply online store. So 11 days ago I contacted Union Line to let them know we wouldn?t be working with American Unions any more, but were still interested in purchasing from them.

It took 11 days for them to figure out who we were, and today they finally emailed us saying that if we wanted to do business with them, we had to go through the embroiderer. ?Since we?ve already incurred tremendous expense making up for those mistakes, that?s not going to happen. ?They won?t say what?s happening with the jackets. I imagine that got screwed up too or I?d be looking at UPS tracking numbers instead of getting blow-off emails.

Anyway, all of this is by way of saying that we won?t be sending the Union Line jackets out to the occupations this week as we?d planned. ?Fortunately we didn?t sit on our thumbs for the past 11 days, and have been talking with other American manufacturers in case Union Line fell through. We?ve already sent other goods to keep Occupy Erie warm, who have been raided 7 times and still keep coming back.

There are certainly other terrific American made outerwear companies and they?re all quite anxious to have our business, but we have always gone out of our way to work with union manufacturers when we can. ?If Union Line ever gets their act together and provides us with the reliability and support we need in order to supply the occupiers, we?ll revisit things. ?But for now, we?re simply not willing to let people freeze in order to work with them, so we?ll be moving on.

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