Labour Advocate Mugs

"Sometimes I wonder why we bother with unions these days..."

The International and May Day Terrorism

I was thinking about the implications of your brave effort last week to unionize. I didn't really. I was role-playing. Whatever. Do you realize the demise of unions has coincided with a massive decline in the middle class? What? I'm helping chickens cross a road on my iPhone. I'm taking about the income gap! Talkin' 'Bout the Income Gap is sponsored by: The makers of signs, placards, and other protest equipment.

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

It's a dogs life

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

'Our union contract keeps us from cutting salaries, but nothing prevents us from charging for parking.'

Bureaucrats held up by the workers.

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

'Drop dead. Well that's good start to our negotiations.'

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

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

When collective bargaining is outlawed!: 'To work here, you have to wear this metal collar!'

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

"Don't tell the employees, but management has acquired their union."

'I told you we should have unionized.'

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Wage Slavery

Progressive Democrats Like Elizabeth Warren Want a Higher Minimum Wage That Is Way Too Low

'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!'

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

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

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

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

'Well, if you consider normal corporate surveillance, interrogation, and harassment 'union-busting,', nothing I have to say will change your mind.'

John Prescott

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

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

'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."

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

'My union prevented taking away our dental plan to pay for executive bonuses!'