Worker Advocacy Gifts

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

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

...and don't forget to ask them for more overtime.

Without a union...you're sunk.

Motivation to work

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.

The role of administration.

It's a dogs life

"Why, if it isn't Henshaw caught in the Overtime Warp again."

"But if you were a real boy you wouldn't be allowed to work such long hours."

'Sex discrimination? What are you talking about?'

'Here are some bonus checks. Distribute them unfairly.'

'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!'

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

Capitalism: Creates, Jobs & Wealth.

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

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

Susan finally becomes assertive with her boss...

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

NDAs for non VIPs

Union organizer in a hostile workplace. . .

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

"She's always like this at this time of the month!"

'I told you we should have unionized.'

Progressive Democrats Like Elizabeth Warren Want a Higher Minimum Wage That Is Way Too Low

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

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

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

'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."

'HR fired me because of an 'unstable job demand'. When I demanded a decent wage, they said I was unstable.'

'You're offering me a job, eh? -- does it have portable benefits?'

'It's spring, Boss! When a young man's fancy turns to union organizing!"

'It's work, work, work, seven days a week. Want to start a union?'