#labour unions
the left will fail and keep failing as long as it doesn’t offer joy or a vision of the future. Like chris smalls and the union organizers didn’t win by writing scathing op-eds about Amazon and sending out long dry newsletters with donation links about Amazon’s unfair labor practices to employees, they won by literally meeting people where they were at, at the bus stop where the workers gathered to go home, and hosting cookouts and bonfires. He ate with people and smoked with them and talked to them about their lives and the job, about their rights as workers and how life could be better. He brought joy to them!!! And food and community!! And that’s how one of the biggest victories for labor in a century was won. If I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution
It’s funny that you mention dancing because after my library’s vote to unionize passed, we actually had a dance party. Rented out a room, got a former employee who supported our organizing to DJ, and just…celebrated. At the end of the night he played “Solidarity Forever” and we all stood in a big circle with our arms around each other and danced. Still one of my favorite moments.
CEOS, Except With Subtitles
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Transcript:
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels.
PANEL 1
This panel contains nothing but the title of the cartoon, in large, friendly letters.
TITLE: CEOs, EXCEPT WITH SUBTITLES
PANEL 2
This panel shows a friendly-looking man, seated behind a desk, wearing a three-piece suit and talking directly to the viewer. He is the CEO. In this panel, and in all the following panels, the CEOs dialog is at the top of the panel in a comic book font, while there’s a subtitle “translating” what he’s saying in a more mechanical font at the bottom of the panel.
CEO: Greetings! As CEO, I want to talk to our entire company family about a serious issue: Unionization.
SUBTITLE: Listen up, serfs!
PANEL 3
The panel shows a wall-mounted flatscreen TV; on the TV, the CEO, in the same shot as panel 1, is talking, his right hand on his chest over his heart.
CEO: I think of us as more a family than a business.
SUBTITLE: A family where papa gets paid 271 times as much.
PANEL 4
A room is filled with people watching the CEO on a wall-mounted TV. The TV is flanked by a security guard on one side, and a manager-looking woman on the other, both watching the crowd in an unfriendly manner. On TV, the CEO has raised his hands and looks angry.
CEO: We don’t need union outsiders in our family!
SUBTITLE: "Outsiders" like pro-union workers who have worked here for decades.
PANEL 5
A shot of the CEO in his office. We’re now off a bit to one side, so we can see the camera the CEO is talking to, a boom microphone, and the corner of a big photography light aimed at the CEO. The CEO is raising an index finger and looking stern.
CEO: The consequences of unionization could be terrible for all our company’s workers.
SUBTITLE: We will be illegally firing union organizers.
PANEL 6
The same shot as panel one, with the CEO looking straight at the viewer and smiling, his arms folded on the desk in front of him.
CEO: In closing, to the union, I say: You don’t scare me!
SUBTITLE: In all the universe, nothing frightens me more than unionization. I literally just peed my pants.
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