Advocate For Labor Rights Mugs

"Let's compromise, you forget about a pay rise and I'll forget about a pay cut."

"That's it lads, 364 days annual leave...what would we have done without our union!"

"We need a union!'

The role of administration.

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

'You can't fire me! -- This is a right-to-work state!'

"But if you were a real boy you wouldn't be allowed to work such long hours."

"We'll take a 10% cut in benefits if you'll take a 10% cut in stock options."

Capitalism: Creates, Jobs & Wealth.

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

"Look - we'll whistle when it's fifteen dollars an hour."

"Then I told him, 'Unions are powerless in this country... What can you do to me?'"

'Employee benefits? Sure, here you are!'

"We're striking for minimum levels of service."

"The union is objecting to our 'grotesquely inflated' wages, do you think they'd settle for 'outrageously inflated' instead?"

'In this pyramid we are unionized. We don't accept more than 50 lashes per day.'

The Trans Pacific Partnership! Negotiated in Secret! No input from labor, consumer, or environmental organizations...

A worker is crossing a 'Labor Unions' Bridge - It is starting to come apart.

'Let's be fair and take a vote - how many here think we need a minimum wage increase?'

'The problem is, you don't take enough pride in your temporary, no benefit, below living wage job!'

'The Human Right Act bans any cruel of unusual treatment...we may need to rewrite out ENTIRE staff care policy!'

"Thank you for coming in on your day off, minion. It reflects well on your character." "I thought my job depended on it." "I don't know how you got that impression. I would never force you to come in on your day off. That would be illegal." "You said 'Come in on your day off. Your job depends on it.'" "Rudy, Rudy, Rudy... That's just a figure of speech." "You went on to say 'I mean it. That's not just a figure of speech.'" "That was a figure of speech too."

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

"As a show of our commitment to your right to work, we're happy to offer you a contract that meets all your demands."

'In other words, we want you to get paid like our union employees.'

'The union card does it every time.'

"When given a choice, a lot of them prefer eternal torment over being stuck in a 9 to 5 job."

"We located our factory in your country because there is no word for leisure in your language."

'We've been given three months notice backdated twelve weeks.'

Labor abuse