Union Activist Gifts

'For today's civics lesson, look outside the window, where there's a peaceful demonstration against union-busting.'

'Better working conditions? Unless you join a union you haven't got a prayer.'

"I don't have some union to argue my case, I'd like to see how they'd cope in the real world."

'Strikes aren't what they used to be.'

'The Force, Luke, is the union! Join the union, Luke! Join the union!'

"No, no - it was great. It's just that sometime I'd like to try it missionary style."

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

"We need a union!'

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.'

"A wage increase to match inflation."

'Enough is enough. We're sick of being overworked and underpaid.'

National Living Wage from April 1st.

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

Sick

"Instead of raising the minimum wage, we should lower it to $4.00 an hour and create more jobs. Plus, low wages would encourage car pooling."

"Of course I believe in unions - Where do you think we doctors would be without the A.M.A.?"

"Sorry, coffee is delivered by a union shop and you banned all things union."

"Ha! Today we informed the boss about our rights!"

"We don't need no stinkin' unions...I saw it on the internet."

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

You'll get us thrown out of the carrion Union!

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

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

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

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

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

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

'I told you we should have unionized.'

"Don't worry - if we double the minimum wage it will still be nothing."

'This is just the first step -- next, I invent the Teamsters' Union!'

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

A worker is crossing a 'Labor Unions' Bridge - It is starting to come apart.