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fmbm: core
type: Apex Door
title: Union Made Trades
resource: https://unionmadetrades.com/
door_template: door.template.html
door_template_version: 260812-e270cd48
stamped_utc: 2026-08-13T17:13:23Z
tags: [rail-works, apex-door, unionmadetrades.com]
status: draft
---

# Union Made Trades

The register of union, allied and union-supporting businesses across every trade. Records who holds what, on what basis, and who checked. Issues no label of its own.

## Status
- **Our own vetted network** — The shops we place work with, checked by us because we send them the work (`NOT YET`)
- **The register** — One record set, every trade. Free to be listed and free to read (`NOT YET`)
- **Printing trades** — The first vertical, at unionprintingtrades.com — where the standard gets proven (`NOT YET`)
- **The vetting standard** — Published and versioned, so an entry can be argued with instead of taken on faith (`NOT YET`)
- **Supporter listings** — Businesses that source union-made or employ union labor — a separate tier, never dressed as a union shop (`NOT YET`)
- **Shop membership** — Paid, annual, optional. Buys placement and first call on routed work — never a verification, a tier, or a word of the listing (`NOT YET`)
- **Co-op listings** — Serving cooperatives is a category of its own. Serving is not being, and the register says which (`NOT YET`)
- **Further trades** — Each trade gets its own face reading from this one register. Printing first, on its own merits (`NOT YET`)

## Family
- [Union Printing Trades](https://unionprintingtrades.com) — The printing face of this register
- [Union Made Services](https://unionmadeservices.com) — The shop that sends the work
- [Print Shop Link](https://printshop.link) — The shop network — where a vetted entry gets work
- [Union.ink](https://union.ink) — Union labor, on contract
- [Union Made Systems](https://unionmadesystems.com) — The rails it all runs on
- [Union Delivery](https://union-delivery.com) — The delivery rail
- [Kai Buskirk](https://kaibuskirk.com) — Technology developer — the origin door
- [Studio X](https://studiox88.com) — The studio — cloud, web & AI since 1988
- [Cadre](https://cadre.fyi) — The cadre gateway