Labor Rights Lover Mugs

"Leave it to humans - making robotics do the striking."

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

"We need a union!'

'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."

Telekinetics on strike...

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

Sick

'It is a big day! Ten years ago, yout dad joined the union!'

Labor Day '19

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

'How can the employees accuse me of running a sweatshop? Don't I let them go home after midnight?'

'Boss, there's union guys out there organizing the robots.'

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

'Employee benefits? Sure, here you are!'

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

'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...

Pennybags Monster

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

"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."

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

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

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

'The union card does it every time.'

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

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

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

USA Slavery

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

'And finally, on these wage demands I give no quarter; a dime is my last offer.'

'It's spring, Boss! When a young man's fancy turns to union organizing!"

'I'm Dorothy, and I'm your OZ union organizer!'

But I Can't Afford to Accept Economic Reality!

'Great! That was blocking my view of the powerful tides of wild capitalism.'