Industrial Relations Enthusiast Prints

Time - Life Inc: 'Bad news, sir! Our operators standing-by are on sit-down strike!'

"My employees formed a union and told me where to go!"

"Some day, son, all this will be yours. ... Actually, you know what? You can have it now."

Motivation to work

'That was when I closed five distribution centres, mothballed a factory and sacked 3,000 workers.'

"It's a mixed-use facility: retail space, low-rent housing, luxury apartments, and an area set aside for making steel."

"You know, it really wasn’t that bad."

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

U.S. Manufacturing - Good News & Bad News

Wildcats Strike.

"Our 'Invest in American' program is saving money by buying orange safety cones from China."

'Once we switch to information processing, just imagine how much data this baby will handle.'

"Between you and me he's not the easiest man in the world to work for."

"To show you how committed the company is to ending this strike, we are moving operations to Mexico."

'In grandfather's day, the government didn't coddle workers, and we got along just great.'

Conflict resolution.

'Someday, all of this liability exposure will be yours!'

'The robots have gone on strike...'

"Our carbon footprint has been very, very good to us."

"He likes to make clients feel important..."

Steel Works - 'How the devil did all this go down 7 3/8 today?'

"I paid the union dues for decades but my boss always treated me fair and with respect! I'm going to sue the company for damages!"

"Our carbon footprint has been very, very good to us."

'Today the UN issued sanctions against Iran, and Iran issued a fatwa against the UN.'

Artist in industrial environment paints a butterfly.

'He's not finished his media training!'

'The meek will inherit coal mine safety violations, and the human health and the death toll.'

"I don't know why other countries won't buy our products...After all, they made them!"

'Why have you joined so many unions?'-'More chance to go on strike.'

Lightbulb Maker

"At the moment I'm waiting for the unions' wage demand...oh, there it is!"

Surgical Appliance Factory

'Some of you were wondering, 'what, exactly, does Smedgwick, Refining and Smelting do'?'

'What did we do before China made everything?'

"We're tolerably self sufficient. Alistair, for example, makes all our own petrol."