Workers' Rights Warrior Gifts

"I'd like to speak to you about an unfair labor practices complaint."

'We're pro-union here - a happy worker is a productive worker.'

Equity Table Dance Club

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

"We need a union!'

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

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

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

Worker Rights and the Smoking Ban

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

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?"

'Employee benefits? Sure, here you are!'

"We're striking for minimum levels of service."

The relationship between you and your employer is not one of equals....Being in a union fixes the imbalance!

'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.

Pennybags Monster

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

The Verdict Is Union Yes!

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

"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.'

"We located our factory in your country because there is no word for leisure in your language."

'The union card does it every time.'

"When given a choice, a lot of them prefer eternal torment over being stuck in a 9 to 5 job."

Labor abuse

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