Organize or Comply: Union Hoodies, Tees, and Gifts for Labor Organizers

Organize or Comply: Strength in Numbers hoodie

“Organize or comply” is not a slogan you put on a shirt to be edgy. It's the actual choice every workplace faces: either people come together and set terms, or they accept the terms someone else set for them. The line under it, strength in numbers, is the whole argument in three words. Our Organize or Comply collection turns that into things you can wear to a meeting, carry to a strike line, or hand to the person who ran your card check.

The Organize or Comply hoodie (and the oversized version)

The Organize or Comply hoodie is the piece people buy for picket duty in cold weather: medium-heavy fleece, a double-lined hood, and the message centered on the chest. It comes in dark heather, sport grey, white, red, royal, and more, in unisex S–5XL for $47.99.

The oversized-fit Organize or Comply hoodie is the same message on a roomier cut, for people who like a drop shoulder or want to layer over a work shirt. Same price, same sizing.

The crewneck and the t-shirt

For meetings, the Organize or Comply crewneck sweatshirt ($42.99) is the cleaner choice: a soft heavyweight pullover in sand, white, dark heather, or red. The Organize or Comply t-shirt ($32.99) is the warm-weather version, a lightweight 100% Airlume cotton tee in white, red, pink, heather royal, and athletic heather, sizes S–3XL. It's the one that shows up in group photos at rallies, because a dozen people in the same red tee reads as exactly what it is.

Two newer tees put the same argument in the movement's own words: Alone We Beg, Together We Bargain and Decisions About Us, Made With Us, both $32.99 in black, navy, or dark grey heather.

Gifts for the organizer in your life

Four smaller items round out the line and make good thank-you gifts for stewards, committee members, and the friend who spent their weekends on house visits:

The Organize or Comply canvas tote ($32.99) is heavyweight 12oz cotton canvas, the right size for a laptop, flyers, and a clipboard. The Organize or Comply sticker starts at $8.99 and comes in four sizes for laptops, water bottles, and hard hats. The Organize or Comply dad hat ($29.99) covers the people who agree with the message but won't wear a slogan across their chest. And the Organize or Comply soy candle ($36.99) is a 9oz hand-poured candle in scents like clean cotton, lavender sage, and cinnamon vanilla, for the late-night planning sessions.

Ordering for a group

If you're outfitting a committee, mix and match freely: the tee, crewneck, and both hoodies share colorways, so a group order in red or sport grey stays consistent.

Everything is printed to order in the United States and ships from here. The blank garments themselves are made overseas, like almost all print-on-demand apparel. For a line about organizing, it would be worse to let that slide by unsaid than to tell you plainly. The full answer is on the FAQ page.

Browse the whole Organize or Comply collection, or start with the hoodie.

Related reading

What to Wear to a Protest covers the practical side of a long day on your feet. Libraries Are Socialism is about the word people use to shut this conversation down.