Custom T-Shirts

We can custom print T-shirts with the image or message of your design. A wide variety of ink colors are available. Prices below include a one color imprint on one side of a standard or heavyweight 100% cotton union-made LifeWear™ brand short-sleeved shirt. The standard union-made T-shirts we print on are from one of the five union shirt manufacturers still in the U.S., LifeWear, Windjammer, Bayside, Rubin Brothers or Platinum). They are made of 5.6 ounce 100% cotton, with crew neck, tapered shoulder-to-shoulder. Double needle bottom hem and sleeves. Side seam construction.

T-shirts colors available are: White, Natural, Ash, Black, Red, Navy Blue, Royal Blue, Orange, Forest Green, Purple and Lime (a.k.a. Neon or Safety) Green. Other weights and styles are also available. 100% Organically-grown, unbleached cotton T-shirts are also available - but they are not available union-made at this point in the evolution of the organic/environmentally-safe movement and the organized labor/human rights movements.
We use S.O.S. From Texas™ brand 100% Organc Cotton T-Shirts. They offer the unbleached, natural color cotton shirt. Their cotton is organcally grown on a family farm in Texas and woven into fabric, cut, sewn and assembled in North Carolina: entirely made in the U.S. If you've looked into organic shirts, you know how unusual it is to find a shirt that's organically grown and assembled in the U.S. AlternateApparel™ brand (for a softer ringspun feel), unbleached, T-shirts, or A.S. Tees' brand organic cotton T-shirts when you want organic cotton T's.
A.S. Tees are sewn in Columbia, South Carolina. A.S. Tees offers four colors in their organic cotton: men's style (white, black, charcoal and olive green). In addition to these colors, A.S. Tees offers a women's style in a light pink. Organic cotton sizes: small to extra-large.

Our union made shirts are either Lifewear, Windjammer (both made in Pennsylvania, UNITE! union), Platinum Sportswear (Geogia, UFCW union), Bayside's Union-Made line (Anaheim, CA) or Rubin Bros. (Chicago, UNITE! union)

You can also order UN-IMPRINTED SHIRTS from us in any quantity, as few as one. Small through XL sizes are $6 each, add $2 for 2 XL, $3 for 3XL, $4 for 4 XL. Organic Cotton shirts in Small through XL are $9 each. The organic are also available in Youth sizes and women's cut styles for the same prices.

You may also ask us for a price quote for printing on shirts you provide.
Remember that each imprinted ink color in your design requires a separate screen - the screen charge is $25 per color. PMS ink color matches cost $33 per color to mix the special ink color for your order. Emailed proofs are free. Paper proofs mailed to you cost $12.00 per color. Minimum order is 24 shirts. The "Unite" union label is sewn into the collar. We can also imprint the screenprinter's union label on the shirt. The imprinted union label reads: "UNITE HERE!" inside a small rectangular box. It looks different than the traditional oval union "bugs" you have seen printed on paper and other shirts, but it is the genuine union label of the UNITE HERE! union of textile workers. UNITE HERE is a labor union in the United States and Canada with more than 265,000 active members. The union's members work predominantly in the hotel, food service, laundry, warehouse, and casino gaming industries. The union was formed in 2004 by the merger of UNITE (formerly the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees) and HERE (Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union).
Maximum imprint area for your design or text: 11.5" x 13" on front or back.

Set-Up Charges: $25 for each screen. Each color in your design requires a screen.

Other Charges: A base print of white ink must first be imprinted, and Spot Drying ("Flashing") is required to maintain brightness when white or light-colored inks are printed on a dark shirt. This is priced as one additional color, but not an additional screen.

Production Time: Normally allow 10-15 working days from when we receive your order to when we ship it. Shipping costs vary with distance and how quickly you need to receive it. We can quote shipping costs for your job.

Prices include short-sleeved T-Shirt & imprint on one side:

Quantity	12-23	24-99	100+	250+	500+	1000+
1 color print	$9.85	$8.70	$8.25	$7.95	$7.75	$7.65
2 color print	$11.05	$9.55	$9.05	$8.70	$8.30	$8.10
3 color print	$11.85	$10.40	$9.50	$9.05	$8.80	$8.50
4 color print	$12.90	$11.15	$10.25	$9.80	$9.50	$9.20

Additional Locations Printing
To print on another location on your garment-- the other side or the sleeve--add the appropriate cost from this chart to the price from the chart above.

Quantity	12-23	24-99	100+	250+	500+	1000+
1 color print	$3.90	$2.55	$2.05	$1.80	$1.60	$1.55
2 color print	$4.65	$3.00	$2.40	$2.15	$2.05	$1.90
3 color print	$5.30	$3.35	$2.75	$2.50	$2.40	$2.55
4 color print	$5.95	$4.10	$3.35	$3.10	$3.00	$2.75

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ANOTHER REASON WHY WE USE U.S. UNION-MADE T-SHIRTS:
Rather than importing fair-trade produyced t-shirts, the shirts we use support U.S. workers in an all-but-gone domestic textile industry. 99.5% of the t-shirt manufacturing jobs are now in sweatshops in countries that prohibit unions (or consider union to be "communistic" and a threat to business investors. These sweatshops are contracted to be run by third party harsh managers, thus absolving the corporations from any direct culpability for wrong-doing. The criminally-negligent absentee transnational corporations are absolved of guilt as they may nit directly hire the thugs and assassins who torture, disappear and murder union organizers. Corporations go to wherever a local workforce is the cheapest to hire, impoverished and desperate for work, un-organized and easily controlled by fear, threats and coercion. Just like big business operates inside the U.S. today.
f you want to know why we do not use American Apparel™ brand shirts, please go to the archives of the now-defunct quarterly magazine, Clamor: www "dot" clamormagazine "dot" org/issues/38/aa/index.php. They published a 16-page expose of that company in what became their final issue, (Fall 2006). A $250 million dollar a year textile industry giant was very threatened by any negative publicity that a tiny indie quarterly magazine could publish about them. Another example of David versus Goliath. Unfortunately, Goliath won that round. American Apparel is flourishing. Many progressives are still unaware of all the issues concerning American Apparel. Like Wal*Mart, the unethical and ruthless too often rise to the top in corporate America.