Unions are nothing but parasitic ticks, that offer nothing but a deep sleep in a 55gallon drum. Like the Great DJ Johnny Fever once said something like “I’ll join a union when you show me Jimmy Hoffa”. I was a union official for 15 years and you really don’t want to know how the sausage is made.
Here’s a fun factoid about wealth inequality, per the Federal Reserve of St Louis.Between 1989 and 2016, the ownership of total US household wealth by the bottom 50% of the population went from about 3% to about 1%. The ownership of the same total “pie” by the top 10% went from 67% to 77%.
Using GOP talking points, this was obviously because poor people became 3 times lazier in that time period, and the top 10% worked 10% harder.
I know I’ve said this before, but the Studios need the writers and actors more than the actors and writers need them. When the studios are hurting financially enough, they’ll be willing to negotiate. As for UPS, basically what they want is a fair wage and air conditioned trucks. Hopefully, they can get what they want sooner rather than later. Just as the Black Plague’s aftermath ended feudalism (since the commoners, who were less affected than the nobles, could choose which nobles to till their land. And the nobles started paying them to do so), the pandemic ended the trend of taking any job that’s offered and being grateful for the opportunity. People want to make a fair wage that enables them to meet their expenses, coverage so that a hefty hospital bill doesn’t put them in bankruptcy, and hours so that making a living and having a life aren’t exclusive to each other.
We had the 90% tax pretty much after the end of WW2. They destroyed the Unions, which people that work for a living used to guarantee some protection from greed and stupidity. Remember the “investing class” have always been nothing more than leeches on humanity.
They also need to charge the stockholders as well as management things of business for crimes against humanity, since, if they are allowed to continue their behavior, which they will, people that work and starve for a living will certainly have burned up decades ago. We will no longer be of any use to them. Class relationships haven’t really changed all that much since Sumaria.
paul courry 12 months ago
A 90% marginal tax rate seems fair. Same as we paid in 1963.
ibFrank 12 months ago
Tax salaries over a million dollars a year ate 75% or more and don’t allow businesses to deduct them as an expense.
aristoclesplato9 12 months ago
The problem with the rent in LA may not be due to low wages. Maybe one should look at the cost of living in a blue state.
tbemont Premium Member 12 months ago
Best political cartoon I have seen in awhile. Shows why I always support the unions.
A# 466 12 months ago
“Yez can dish it out, but yez can’t take it!” (E.G. Robinson in “Little Caesar” or “Public Enemy” — don’t recall which movie)
wolfiiig 12 months ago
Time for those old union songs! ‘Oh, you can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ with the union . . .’
FreyjaRN Premium Member 12 months ago
Take care of your workers and they will take care of you.
General Trelane (Ret.) Premium Member 12 months ago
It is time for workers everywhere to get organized . The bosses are .
willie_mctell 12 months ago
Collective bargaining is free enterprise in action.
Even Ammosexual works more than 10 to 4 Premium Member 12 months ago
Unions are nothing but parasitic ticks, that offer nothing but a deep sleep in a 55gallon drum. Like the Great DJ Johnny Fever once said something like “I’ll join a union when you show me Jimmy Hoffa”. I was a union official for 15 years and you really don’t want to know how the sausage is made.
tims145 12 months ago
Here’s a fun factoid about wealth inequality, per the Federal Reserve of St Louis.Between 1989 and 2016, the ownership of total US household wealth by the bottom 50% of the population went from about 3% to about 1%. The ownership of the same total “pie” by the top 10% went from 67% to 77%.
Using GOP talking points, this was obviously because poor people became 3 times lazier in that time period, and the top 10% worked 10% harder.
Ignatz Premium Member 12 months ago
They call it “socialism” when employees use the free market.
pamela welch Premium Member 12 months ago
Nice work Jen!!
Northgalus2002 12 months ago
I know I’ve said this before, but the Studios need the writers and actors more than the actors and writers need them. When the studios are hurting financially enough, they’ll be willing to negotiate. As for UPS, basically what they want is a fair wage and air conditioned trucks. Hopefully, they can get what they want sooner rather than later. Just as the Black Plague’s aftermath ended feudalism (since the commoners, who were less affected than the nobles, could choose which nobles to till their land. And the nobles started paying them to do so), the pandemic ended the trend of taking any job that’s offered and being grateful for the opportunity. People want to make a fair wage that enables them to meet their expenses, coverage so that a hefty hospital bill doesn’t put them in bankruptcy, and hours so that making a living and having a life aren’t exclusive to each other.
banjoAhhh! 12 months ago
We had the 90% tax pretty much after the end of WW2. They destroyed the Unions, which people that work for a living used to guarantee some protection from greed and stupidity. Remember the “investing class” have always been nothing more than leeches on humanity.
They also need to charge the stockholders as well as management things of business for crimes against humanity, since, if they are allowed to continue their behavior, which they will, people that work and starve for a living will certainly have burned up decades ago. We will no longer be of any use to them. Class relationships haven’t really changed all that much since Sumaria.