If you’re a union member, you can get 5% off your Cingular cellphone plan. That’s because Cingular is a unionized wireless company, according to this sub-level of their cingularswitch website.

At left is a snip from the coupon union members present at a Cingular store. Note its curious byplay of both the creepy and the lame.

Reader Stephanie found the pro-union splash page through an ad on Salon, a site read daily by bricklayers, electricians and carpenters.

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