Why is a person more likely to be "Superman" if they're privately employed without a union?

[readmoreoften]

:shrug:

[Skittles]

1. it's a fantasy of repuke propaganda

the only "supermen" are rich-fuck CEOs who earn their living off the backs of people who actually work, while pimping the jobs off to the lowest overseas bidders

[Sherman A1]

4. Precisely

:toast:

[readmoreoften]

6. Sounds about right to me.

Thanks for not mincing words...

[readmoreoften]

7. Sounds about right to me.

Thanks for not mincing words...

[Wednesdays]

14. My old signature motto:

"No one worth billions ever earned that wealth themselves. Someone else earned it for them."

[Unrepentant Fenian]

2. I don't know, but I do know that...

all the Firefighters and Cops that ran up the stairs in the World Trade Center were union members. To me each one was a real live Superman.

[readmoreoften]

5. +1

[zbdent]

8. that doesn't fit into the "liberal media" narrative ...

the corporate media can't keep reminding people of that little factoid ...

[LooseWilly]

3. Because Krypton exploded and there aren't enough survivors to form a union?

We are talking about the asshole in the blue tights, right?

If we're talking humans... the answer would be- (s)he isn't- (more likely to be...)

[DailyGrind51]

9. Yeah, even Superman joined the Justice League of America!

[Mugweed]

10. Because we have to do the work of 10 people for the cost of one

just to stay employed. We have no representation to force fair hours, work allotment, and pay. We know the job market sucks, and the older we get the less marketable we become. So we suck it up and become "superman" in order to get done what needs to be done and earn our spot for maybe one more pay period.

[stray cat]

11. Because the job of unions is to look out for unions and not the quality of prod

[Panaconda]

12. BWAHAHAHA

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Wednesdays]

15. Yeah, really. The 40-hour work week just magically appeared on its own.

8-hour workday, minimum wage, safety regulations...

[maryf]

21. Weekends too!!

wave of a wand...:)

[frylock]

18. there isn't a right-wing talking point out there that you haven't adopted

[Catshrink]

26. No kidding.

[Touchdown]

20. Considering that you sent that mssg on a network built by union members...

You have a serious disconnect going there.

[Catshrink]

25. I recommend that you read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

[Gabi Hayes]

27. I couldn't finish that book. in college I was doing some sort of paper on something, and

that was one of the books I read. it was so disgusting, so depressing, I had to stop. blue milk, from tubercular cows. housing projects in chicago built over toxic garbage dumps

offal, dead rats, killed by bread covered with rat poison, all mouldering under a leaky roof, all swept up off the killing floor...then turned into some meat byproducts. YUMMO, Rachel! I still remember that, over thiry years later

[Catshrink]

28. I read it in high school

and it made quite an impression. It should be required reading for all those demonizing unions. Is this what they want to return to? Or do they think they'll be magically exempt from the kind of life portrayed in the book? And how do we know that the people in Bangladesh who make clothes for Walmart aren't living that life now?

[Gabi Hayes]

29. hey! those foreigners want a 1700 percent raise! or something like that:

from 1 and a half/two cents per hour, all the way up to 35 cents/hour.

did you see that thread the other day?

greedy bastards

think of all you can buy over there for thirty five cents an hour!

that's almost twenty dollars a week. (course, it's probably more like thirty five, if they're still working 100 weeks over there, which is what we'll be working here soon, if all the anti-union DUers here get their way)

right to work....YES!!!

[cbdo2007]

31. Wow, you're certainly not here to make friends are you?? ha ha

I agree with you, unions nowadays are stifling American creativity and production, but geez I certainly don't have the balls to say so outloud here. Oops, I guess I just did.

[Panaconda]

13. Listen up citizen- The corporate mafia tells us it is so therefore it is so

[Johonny]

16. Even Superman joined the Justice League

[lonestarnot]

17. Because superman was secretly covered with scabs under that suit.

[Touchdown]

19. The original Superman was a newspaper journalist

They are union members. Right wingers are trying to rewrite comic book fiction as well as reality now.

[maryf]

22. Thanks!! K&R

[Rex]

23. Because they have to work under worse conditions then public teachers

without a strong union backing them? :shrug:

[Starry Messenger]

24. Because on Planet Htrae

Each workers are union of one!

[Gabi Hayes]

30. George Bush bestest president ever! Make pie higher! Make man coexist with FISH!