Fewer union employees is a problem for the union business. That’s right. I said business, union business (Preview)
Support the show, help us raise money for abortion access, and get a bonus episode every week for only $3.11/mo at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult This week Alex becomes a sober guy. Also, we catch up on union militancy inside UPS facebook groups. We stick to the topic of unions as we look at a Target store that managed to overcome the company's notoriously anti-union propaganda to organize for better working conditions and file for a union election. Finally, Frank Stallone has a few words (?) for millennials and their lack of good speaking.
People might be more invested to watch the self-checkout.
Also, maybe I won't feel as good about using my coupons.
I'll be real, I abuse coupons, y'all.
I abuse the coupons at the self-checkout.
This is what we do.
But I'm going to feel bad about being a super-couponer if they unionize.
I don't know if I want it.
I don't think I want it.
You know, Marx did foresee a lot of things.
He, you know, foresaw the class struggle between labor and capital.
He did not foresee the third class that would arise in the modern era, which is self-checkout.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So there is, like, kind of a weird, you know, dynamic going on.
I mean, there is, you know, sort of a contentious relationship between labor and the self-checkout shopper.
Yeah, and like, it's just where I find myself.
Like, your class is often where you find yourself, and that's where I'm at.
And that's just, I have to, you know, deal with that.
It was so funny, the other day on Twitter, I was talking about, like, oh, I got these kettlebells from Target self-checkout.
And everyone's like, that place is so expensive.
I can't believe you spent all that money.
Like you, you just got so much money.
Like, haven't you checked like secondhand places first?
And I'm like, nevermind.
Nevermind.
I believe that self-checkout customers are entitled to all the bananas they can ring up.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bananas and Nevier hand creams.
We stay moisturized.
No, this is obviously very good.
Yes, awesome.
Target, specifically, is one of those companies that has those insane anti-union videos.
Oh yeah.
Have you ever watched any of those?
Not to specifically target one, but I love those videos.
They're so wild.
Let me see if I can find one real quick.
And because we're the best that makes those of us at Target a Target ourselves.
We're a target because we're a threat to unions.
The unions that represent grocery store workers.
When we take business away from unionized grocery stores, that means they need fewer employees.
I love that.
We're a threat because we're literally eliminating good paying jobs.
They don't like that.
They don't like that.
And fewer grocery store employees mean fewer union members.
And fewer members?
Well, that's a problem for the union business.
That's right.
I said business.
Union business.
Wow.
Wow.
That's a problem for the union business.
That's right.
Business.
Union business.
See, when your friend who works over at Kroger or another unionized grocery store, when they lose their livelihood, that's a problem for the big union.
Yeah.
Also, like, when they're business, it's bad.
When we're business, it's good.
But when they're business, it's bad.
We're going to say business three times to really make sure you understand how bad business is.
Yeah, dude.
It's literally just, oh, there's business and then there's business.
Business.
Yeah.
They represent the grocery store workers.
I don't know if you've ever met a grocery store worker, but they're a pretty thuggish group.
I don't know about that.
I don't know if you want to be tied to that.
Well, they're trying to skip over the fact that those are workers at all.
They're just talking about them as numbers on a spreadsheet that only exist to benefit the union business.
And it's that thing, too, where they kind of tell on themselves because they say, like, and if there's less union workers, that's not good for the union.
It's like, so what you're saying is if there's more union workers, that's good for the union?
Are you saying that, too?
And it's bad for business.
It's bad for our business.
Yeah.
A union is not a charity, it's not a club, and it's not part of the government.
It's a business.
A business that has to take in money to survive.
But it doesn't have any products to sell.
All it has is memberships to sell.
A union's only source of income is the money they charge members.
Have you ever heard of this, Tony?
A business that doesn't have a product to sell?
Well, I mean, I've heard of that, but like, the product that the bank is selling me is holding my money.
Yeah, so that's good.
That's an actual product.
The product of providing me with a service that negotiates on my behalf for better wages, that's not a product.
Not a product, no.
No, that's a business.
That's a Ponzi scheme.
You know those jackets aren't free.
Money for initiation and dues and fines and assessments.
I wish you could see this fucking graphic.
It's just cash falling in front of a blood red background.
Yeah.
And then superimposed over that is like a $20 or $100 bill and you're seeing the word initiations in blood red font over the $20 bill.
