Trade Unionism Gifts

'Our best strategy for collective bargaining is to send our biggest guy.'

Picket sign writers on strike.

Imagining a Better World Isn't Really That Hard

"We need a union!'

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.

"First the good news - one of us hasn't been made redundant."

Time Out For Teddy

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

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

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

Wildcats Strike.

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

"Look - we'll whistle when it's fifteen dollars an hour."

"Before we start our wages negotiation talks, the lads would like to congratulate the chairman on his 83% salary increase."

'Here's a signed statement from Vince Cable saying we can get rid of underperforming employees more easily.'

'I solved the union problem. I made everyone management!'

Labor-Management Non-Relations

'I told you we should have unionized.'

I can outsource your job to someone who'll work longer hours for less money.

Unity is strength! Vote for local 62 today!

'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?"

Union organizer in a hostile workplace. . .

Your dad is a union man, isn't he?

The relationship between you and your employer is not one of equals....Being in a union fixes the imbalance!

'In this pyramid we are unionized. We don't accept more than 50 lashes per day.'

The struggle for a decent payment.

"What should I say this is about?"

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

Workers' Rights

"But it will never get better if you picket"

They Even Use Astronomy to Screw Workers

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

Member of two trade unions

"Can you even imagine where women would be without the trade union movement...."