The What Now Labor Cartoon Zone

"The so called Job Creators are on strike for even more tax cuts, what a Crock !"

2011-09-17T18:50:00.000-07:00

"Fair Trade, Not Free Trade!" ( A Labor Day ) " What Now Cartoon"

2011-08-26T19:07:00.000-07:00

"FAA Funding, The New GOP Hostage Crisis!" ( the new ) "What Now Cartoon"

2011-08-04T11:27:00.001-07:00

Nurses Talk About Staffing Issues

2011-06-13T17:38:00.000-07:00

"Ceo's rake it in , while pitting workers against each other!"

2011-06-03T12:13:00.000-07:00

CEO Pay Now Exceeds Pre-Recession Levels, Like The Crash Never Happened

2011-05-06T11:47:00.000-07:00

"Unions under attack in 2011!"

2011-05-04T12:06:00.000-07:00

2011-04-21T17:17:00.000-07:00

2011-02-26T18:26:00.000-08:00

GOP EXTREMISTS ARE OUT TO GUT UNIONS IN THE USA

SO THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO HELP DEMOCRATS IN 2012!

"Scott Walker Buffaloed!" ( the new ) "What Now Cartoon"

2011-02-24T00:09:00.000-08:00

I can't believe that this gullible moron is the Governor of Wisconsin,

okay I believe it, with the Koch brothers combined with the rest of the right wing's

endless piles of cash for their rape of America,

yeah, I guess can believe that even Chauncey Gardner could be a US governor.

Well this story was too priceless not to turn into a toon, so here it is straight off the drawing board!

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"Wisconsin's War On Unions!" ( the New ) "What Now Cartoon"

2011-02-16T17:39:00.000-08:00

Here's some of the highlights from Republican Governor Scott Walker's plan to cut the right for public employees to have collective bargaining, and if they don't like it, he's put the national guard on alert :

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. Make various changes to limit collective bargaining for most public employees to wages. Total wage increases could not exceed a cap based on the CPI unless approved by referendum. Contracts would be limited to one year and wages would be frozen until a new contract is settled. Collective bargaining units are required to take annual votes to maintain certification as a union. Employers would be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units would not be required to pay dues. Changes effective upon expiration of existing contracts. Law enforcement, fire employees and state troopers and inspectors would be exempt from the changes.
STATE EMPLOYEE ABSENCES AND OTHER WORK ACTIONS. Authorizes appointing agencies to terminate any employees that are absent for three days without approval of the employer or any employees participating in an organized action to stop or slow work if the governor has declared a state of emergency.
QUALITY HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY. Repeals the authority of home health care workers under the Medicaid program to collectively bargain.
CHILD CARE LABOR RELATIONS. Repeals the authority of family child care workers to collectively bargain with the state.
UW HOSPITALS AND CLINICS BOARD AND AUTHORITY. Repeals collective bargaining for UWHC employees. State positions currently employed by the UWHC are eliminated and incumbents are transferred to the UWHC Authority.
UW FACULTY AND ACADEMIC STAFF. Repeals authority of UW faculty and academic staff to collectively bargain.
Authorizes DOA to sell state heating plants, with the net proceeds deposited in the budget stabilization fund.
PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS. Require that employees of WRS employers and the City and County of Milwaukee contribute 50% of the annual pension payment. The payment amount for WRS employees is estimated to be 5.8% of salary in 2011.
HEALTH INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS. Requires state employees to pay at least 12.6% of the average cost of annual premiums.

"Jobs for Christmas?"

2010-12-21T13:46:00.000-08:00

"Start Shopping!" ( the new ) "What Now Cartoon"

2010-11-29T14:53:00.001-08:00

"Filibustering Ending Tax Breaks for Off shoring Jobs"

2010-10-01T17:53:00.000-07:00

The Senate failed to end the filibuster of a bill that would help keep jobs in America.

The Senate couldn’t break a Republican filibuster of the Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act (S. 3816). The bill would have killed subsidies to corporations that move facilities or production offshore. It would also have given tax incentives to companies that hire U.S. workers instead of overseas employees.

Congress is back for a short session

2010-09-14T10:53:00.000-07:00

CONGRESS IS BACK, AND A LOT OF LABOR FRIENDLY BILLS

ARE ON THE AGENDA, AND THE GOP IS FIGHTING THEM

ONCE AGAIN. WE NEED MORE DEMOCRATS TO BLOCK THEIR

OBSTRUCTIONISM. VOTE THIS NOVEMBER, IT'S IMPORTANT.

"The Expiring Bush Tax Cuts!" ( the new ) "What Now Cartoon"

2010-09-05T16:48:00.000-07:00

Giant U.S. companies and their multi-millionaire CEO's have stepped up their lobbying to block Democrats' plans to let the Bush tax cuts on wealthier Americans expire at the end of this year. They say letting the Bush tax cuts expire will choke off the economic recovery, that the tax cuts create jobs.

Well, where are the jobs?

For the almost ten years that they have been in effect the nation has lost more than

2.5 million manufacturing jobs and more than 850,000 professional service and information center jobs.

"Stop This Insane Outsourcing!"

2010-08-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

Now it's become apparent to everyone that the Regan,Bush,Clinton,Friedman flat earth free trade insanity has devastated America's Middle Class! We need to end the NAFTA, GATT, and WTO insanity and return to the protectionism that built American industry over the past 200 years .

"Exporting our Jobs and America's Future!"

2010-08-12T15:01:00.000-07:00

American consumers never seemed to be able to put two and two together. As we were busy running out and filling up our shopping carts with cheap plastic crap made in China, we didn't seem to realize that a "global economy" meant that we would be competing for jobs and wages with workers on the other side of the world.

"Corporations Are sitting on a Mountain of Cash and Not Hiring!"

2010-08-12T14:56:00.000-07:00

How would you like to pay only a quarter of the real estate taxes you owe on your home? And buy everything for the next 10 years without spending a single penny in sales tax? Keep a chunk of your paycheck free of income taxes? Have the city in which you live lend you money at rates cheaper than any bank charges? Then have the same city install free water and sewer lines to your house, offer you a perpetual discount on utility bills--and top it all off by landscape your front yard at no charge? Fat chance. You can't get any of that, of course. But if you live almost anywhere in America, all around you are taxpayers getting deals like this. These taxpayers are called corporations, and their deals are usually trumpeted as "economic development" or "public-private partnerships." But a better name is corporate welfare. It's a game in which governments large and small subsidize corporations large and small, usually at the expense of another state or town and almost always at the expense of individual and other corporate taxpayers.

"Reversing 70 years of labor Gains!"

2010-08-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

It's A class war economy, there's a shocking transfer of wealth out of the pockets of working people and the poor and into the overstuffed bank accounts of the super-rich. And it's happening side-by-side with falling wages, sinking family income, evaporating pensions, forclosures and a failing health-care system.

im Bunning Repeatedly Blocks Unemployment Benefits Extension, Tells Dem 'Tough Shit'

2010-08-12T14:42:00.000-07:00

Jim Bunning, a Republican from Kentucky, is single-handedly blocking Senate action needed to prevent an estimated 1.2 million American workers from prematurely losing their unemployment benefits

Turning Bombs into High Speed Rail?"

2010-08-12T14:34:00.000-07:00

President Obama wants to bulk up high-speed rail, and scale down defense spending. FDR converted peace-time manufacturers into a dominating wartime production system. Why can't President Obama make the bold move to convert our defense contractors into builders of our peacetime future?

"We Want To Get Back To Work Mr. President!

2010-08-12T14:30:00.000-07:00

America needs jobs. Our nation was built on the muscle of manufacturing. Before all this outsourcing we were an industrial giant of the world, where jobs were available to those who wanted to work. The future of the economy depends on a working America, and the people want their voices heard. We must return to a country where our focus is once again on industry, and begin to build not only the economy, but morale. The only way to do that is by putting people back to work.

"What We Would Have Liked to See at The Job Summit!"

2010-08-12T14:21:00.000-07:00

They had a Job Summit, yet nothing has changed! The outsourcing of our jobs continue!

2010-08-12T14:04:00.000-07:00

Tax havens enable the rich and U.S. multinationals to move income and assets between global subsidiaries and dodge taxes. Responsible businesses and individual taxpayers are left to pay for U.S. infrastructure, defense, education and all the public investments that contribute to a healthy business climate and economy.

"Greedy CEOs and anti-union front groups are working overtime to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act!"

2010-08-12T13:57:00.000-07:00

Joining together in a union to bargain for health care, pensions, fair wages and better working conditions is the best opportunity working people have to get ahead.

Today, good jobs are vanishing and health care coverage and retirement security are slipping out of reach. Only 38 percent of the public says their families are getting ahead financially and less than a quarter believes the next generation will be better off.

But workers who belong to unions earn 28 percent more than nonunion workers. They are 52 percent more likely to have employer-provided health coverage and nearly three times more likely to have guaranteed pensions.

All workers should have the freedom to decide for themselves whether to form unions to bargain for a better life.

'Unequal Protection in Action!"

2010-08-12T13:50:00.000-07:00

THE BANKING INDUSTRY THAT WRECKED THE US ECONOMY GETS BILLIONS, NO
QUESTIONS ASKED, YET WHEN IT'S THE MIDDLE CLASS THAT NEEDS A LOAN,
NOT A BAILOUT, THE HEAT IS ON!

"Auto Makers Wanted A Loan, Not A Bailout!"

2010-08-12T13:40:00.000-07:00

AUTO MAKERS WANTED A LOAN, NOT A BAILOUT, YET WORKERS, UNIONS AND
DEMOCRATS WERE ATTACKED BY THE RIGHT. BY THE WAY, THE LOAN WAS PAID OFF, EARLY!

"The Result of Friedman Flat Earth Insane Economic Theory!"

2010-08-12T12:56:00.000-07:00

Thomas Friedman's "Flat Earth Economy has sent our jobs to countries with cheaper labor costs. The winners are a handful of trans national corporations that are taking advantage of all of us. Seventy precent of our economy is consumer driven, how much can we buy if our wages are driven down to third world rates?

" Did You Get Your Fair Share?"

2010-08-12T12:46:00.001-07:00

"Corporations Won't Hire Us, But They Want Us To Shop!"

2010-08-12T12:38:00.000-07:00

I'ts simple, consumers have had the rug pulled out from under them!

"Hollywood Writers Strike for A Small Piece of the Pie!

2010-08-12T12:26:00.000-07:00

"We Need Fair Trade, Not Free Trade!"

2010-08-12T11:59:00.000-07:00

America's lower and middle classes are turning out to be the losers of globalization. Now it's become apparent to everyone that the Regan,Bush,Clinton,Friedman flat earth free trade insanity has devastated America's Middle Class! We need to end the NAFTA, GATT, and WTO insanity and the transnational corporate takeover of world wide economies and return to the protectionism that built American industry over the past 200 years and bring back our jobs and thusly bring back our middle class!

"The Politics of Postage: How Rate Hikes Hurt Small-Circulation Magazines!"

2010-08-12T11:48:00.000-07:00

This not only threatens our freedom of speech; it goes beyond politics because our lives will be strongly affected in ways we can?t imagine when our gardening, quilting, boating, photography, and pet care magazines go out of print. Furthermore, the cost of postage will render it impossible for new small magazines of any flavor to get off the ground in the future.

"Minimum wage too low for living!"

2010-08-11T19:22:00.000-07:00

The federal minimum wage just isn't cutting it anymore.

The last wage increase in 1997 brought the wage to $5.15 per hour, a paltry sum for any individual, let alone a family. According to the Economic Policy Institute, in 2003 the average single mother earning minimum wage fell 5 percent below the poverty line earning only $14, 097 per year including government assistance. While $5.15 may have been adequate in 1997, inflation has rendered the minimum wage insufficient for many Americans.

"Radiology results outsourced to india, kiss your job goodbye!

2010-08-11T19:15:00.000-07:00

Threat from India? Radiology. You can kiss your salaries good bye. Ceo's plan on spending VASTLY less money on rads as a result of outsourcing.

"Americans working much harder – for less pay!"

2010-08-11T18:50:00.000-07:00

Corporate Profits Are Up -- But Mass Layoffs Have Helped