Employment Rights Advocate Mugs

Reforms to Employment Tribunals

"Armstrong, I've worked here for a long time and I think I deserve a raise. How about it?"

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

The role of administration.

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

"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."

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

Capitalism: Creates, Jobs & Wealth.

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

"Your employees have lost faith in your ability to pretend to care about them."

'Here's a signed statement from Vince Cable saying we can get rid of underperforming employees more easily.'

"You misread the terms of your employment. Your probation period is 6 years, not 6 months."

"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.'

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

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

Pennybags Monster

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

They Even Use Astronomy to Screw Workers

'Things are going from bad to worse in the auto industry.'

"Goes to show ou can't please all of the people all of the time!"

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

"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.'

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

'The union card does it every time.'

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

USA Slavery

'We're unable to bring you the special report on the coalminers' strike because of the cameraman's strike.'

ASDA Redundancies

Elves' Union Presents Demands To Santa Claus

"A serf? We don't call you 'serfs' anymore. Nowadas we call you flexibly employed staff members!"

'You're offering me a job, eh? -- does it have portable benefits?'

But I Can't Afford to Accept Economic Reality!

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