Industrial Relations Mugs

'The robots have gone on strike...'

"I hear the workers hate your guts, Batson. Keep it up."

"Just tell us! Do you or do you not specialise in resolving industrial disputes?"

"I hear the workers hate your guts Batson. Keep it up."

Conflict resolution.

'I don't know how legal it is, but during negotiations, I got the management restrooms locked.'

'SIr, I urge you to try talking to the striking union workers before you do something you regret.'

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

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

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

'I know obscene when I see it, and this labor contract you offer your workers is obscene!'

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

Management and staff wage negotiations had reached a crucial stage.

"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!"

"So what kind of mood is he in?"

"They decided giving out pink slips was too impersonal. So now they're blue."

"Keep your money, sir. I'm on strike!"

'Unforeseeable future site of Hainesmore Industries.'

"My boss says I intimidate people. . . so I stared at him until he apologized."

Pandora's boxes

"Before we begin, we'd like to remind you that we're an employee owned company."

'I'm not saying he's going to chew you out, but he skipped breakfast and lunch.'

Tata: Goodbuy or Goodbye?

'Haven't they found you a chair, yet Cludmore?'

Wildcats Strike.

"Back in the industrial age, this was, I believe, a steel mill."

'Here it is - the world's largest miniaturization plant.'

"Under our new definition of 'what is a sale?', he hasn't made any this year."

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

"Take no notice, Blendie, it's just Brent, being his usual, crude..."

Pollution Look

"Your first job is to learn to recognize your boss' voice on the phone."

"Well, our toxic wastes are ten times more harmful thinner hazardous wastes."

'No raise, but we can make your desk and chair one-inch taller.'

'I just wanted to slip in and say hi.'