‘American Made’ T-Shirts Are Having Their Best Year Yet

When Bayard Winthrop, the chief executive of the retailer American Giant, ordered the batch of shirts that his company would advertise for the Fourth of July, he didn’t think much of it. The retailer, which has been producing its apparel solely in factories around the United States for more than a decade, perennially leans into its “Made in America” pitch […]

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Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 Members Ratify New Commercials Contracts

Members of Hollywood’s Teamsters Local 399 have voted overwhelmingly to ratify a pair of contracts with the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, thus averting a threatened strike. Earlier this month, Lindsay Dougherty, the local’s principal officer, threatened to take “a commercial break” if the AICP didn’t offer a fair contract. “If we are provoked,” she said, “we will strike.” The […]

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