Union Rights Advocate Pillows

'You can't vote to unionize- you're associates, not employees!'

"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!'

The role of administration.

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

It's a dogs life

"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."

"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.'

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

Sick

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

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

Capitalism: Creates, Jobs & Wealth.

"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!'

'I told you we should have unionized.'

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

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

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

Pennybags Monster

The Trans Pacific Partnership! Negotiated in Secret! No input from labor, consumer, or environmental organizations...

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

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

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

'The Human Right Act bans any cruel of unusual treatment...we may need to rewrite out ENTIRE staff care policy!'

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

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

"As a show of our commitment to your right to work, we're happy to offer you a contract that meets all your demands."

'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."

Labor abuse