Friday, September 22, 2006

Getting Organized (With Extra Mozzarella)

Fry What's your profession of choice if you, like Jim Pohle, want to "sleep late, smoke on the job, and listen to the radio"?

Pizza delivery guy, of course!

Now Pohle has started a pizza-delivery-guy union, though bargaining sessions with employers will presumably never commence before noon, with smoking breaks scheduled every 15 minutes.

Anyway, this could be all the encouragement paperboys, Elvis impersonators and freelance Santas need to start a union of their own. Amazon's going to make a killing on all those extra copies of Das Kapital.

Oh: Best workers' rights slogan I've come across this week:

EDITORS OF THE WORLD, UNTIE!

Sep 22, 2006 3:26:28 PM

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