Supporter Of Labor Rights Gifts

'I can't get through!'

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

"We need a union!'

"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."

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

Jack in the box on strike.

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

Telekinetics on strike...

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

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

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

"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!'

'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...

The struggle for a decent payment.

"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."

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

Member of two trade unions

'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."

"I'm letting you go because your work is no longer worth taking credit for."

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

USA Slavery

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

"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.'

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

"There's no udder way. Support your union!"

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