Workers' Rights Champion Mugs

"We need a union!'

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

The International and May Day Terrorism

The role of administration.

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

"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."

Sick

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

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

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

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

Capitalism: Creates, Jobs & Wealth.

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

"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.'

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

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

Pennybags Monster

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

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

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

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

"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."

'My union prevented taking away our dental plan to pay for executive bonuses!'

'Great! That was blocking my view of the powerful tides of wild capitalism.'

But I Can't Afford to Accept Economic Reality!

Labor abuse

"A serf? We don't call you 'serfs' anymore. Nowadas we call you flexibly employed staff members!"

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

'We're unable to bring you the special report on the coalminers' strike because of the cameraman's strike.'