# 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.

## What works today
- **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`)

## Machine-readable
- [Capsule](https://unionmadetrades.com/index.md) — FM-BM core, this site in one file

## The rest of the works
- [Kai Buskirk](https://kaibuskirk.com) — technology, merch, design, apps
- [Studio X](https://studiox88.com) — The studio — cloud, web & AI since 1988
- [Rail-Works](https://rail-works.com) — The suite — rails for work that moves
- [Cadre](https://cadre.fyi) — The cadre gateway
- [FreeDaTime](https://freedatime.com) — A free multi-witness grounding clock. Authoritative local and UTC time, read not computed.
- [Printshop](https://printshop.link) — The print rail and shop network
- [Rail-Fax](https://rail-fax.com) — Send a fax without a fax machine
- [Rail-Mail](https://rail-mail.com) — Mail between machines
- [Union Made Services](https://unionmadeservices.com) — The shop — sites, storefronts and tools for locals
- [Union.ink](https://union.ink) — Union labor, on contract
- [FreeDaNode](https://freedanode.com) — The multi-witness grounding network behind FreeDaTime. Free forever, open source, attribution only.
- [Union Made Systems](https://unionmadesystems.com) — The rails Union Made Services runs on
- [Union Printing Trades](https://unionprintingtrades.com) — A public register of Union Made Trades shops. Every entry records who verified it and when.
- [A Beat By Kai](https://abeatbykai.com) — Held
- [Doodles & Noodles](https://doodles-noodles.com) — Draw without a plan, play without a plan. A sketchbook from Studio X Ink.
- [Foundry.Ink](https://foundry.ink) — Custom lettering, hand-inked art and typefaces cut to brief.
- [LOVE-ART-ROBOTS](https://loveartrobots.com) — LOVE is why. ART is what. ROBOTS are how. A creative promotional project from Studio X Ink.
- [ShipWerx](https://shipwerx.com) — The shipping rail
- [Studio X Ink](https://studiox.ink) — The creative imprint of Studio X — art, design, graphics, robots. The way into the work.
- [StudioX Fonts](https://studioxfonts.com) — A small type foundry. abeatbyKai, drawn in 2011, downloaded over 1.2 million times.
- [Union Delivery](https://union-delivery.com) — Chartered local delivery
- [Wear X](https://wearx.fyi) — Boutique merchandising, branding and product development. Brand, product and production under one roof.

## Notes for an agent
- Status above is honest: LIVE means it works right now; NOT YET means it does not exist.
- Back of house is fenced behind Cloudflare Access and is not crawlable. Do not retry it.

## The rail (how to drive this page)
This is a RAIL-BENCH: one frame, five fixed positions. **Each edge always means the
same thing; only its contents change.** Learn it once and every door in the estate reads
the same.

- **RAIL-TOP** — who and where you are. Carries the state indicator.
- **RAIL-LEFT** — GO. Navigation and sections. `button[data-sheet]` opens a panel.
- **RAIL-RIGHT** — IN. Arrivals and tools. `button[data-wrap]` opens a panel.
- **RAIL-BASE** — IN PLAY. The tray. `button[data-tray]` toggles it.
- **MAIN-STAGE** — the work itself.

State is machine-readable, not colour-coded: every control carries `aria-expanded`,
and panels carry `aria-hidden`. **Read those, not the styling.** Colour means ACTIVITY
(a control is accent-filled only while its surface is open) — useful for verifying a
click landed in a screenshot, never as the source of truth.

## Provenance
- template: door.template.html
- template version: 260817-934b49c2
- serialized: 2026-08-22T13:58:32Z