Union Activists Gifts

Week three, things started to get ugly.

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

"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!"

"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.

It's a dogs life

Time Out For Teddy

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

"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."

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

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

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

National Living Wage from April 1st.

Kiss

"A wage increase to match inflation."

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

Someday

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

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

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

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

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

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

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

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

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

'I told you we should have unionized.'

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?"

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

Union organizer in a hostile workplace. . .

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

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