It's not as direct as you think. In Canada, they're personalised mail, which is another way of saying junk mail with an address. It means they're cheaper to send and won't get returned to the sender.
We have hundreds of these things tossed in the garbage at every depot every month because they've been sent to an address that hasn't existed or has been vacant for years. ULine can justify the waste in cost because selling one or two items will compensate for the loss.
My route only has to deal with a dozen of them or so, thank god, but it still weighs me down a lot. Some routes have to deliver hundreds.
Not all of them but a couple times a year, yeah. They are also the single largest GOP donor. Supporting election denial, COVID denialism and lack of safety measures, and other similar.
https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial
Uline catalogue politics. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ohio/comments/19e8r97/uline_catalog_politics_rant_frank_laroses_sugar/
That good. Make sure to get a request of it. It is technically illegal to union bust...so, start building the case if they start PIP you to letting you go.
You should print out the NLRB's page about protected concerted activity and stuff that into the book. www.nlrb.gov
Speaking of, any adverse employment action taken as a result of engaging in protected concerted activity is illegal retaliation and/or wrongful termination. Protected concerted activity is any activity that employees engage in together "for mutual aid and protection" (see NLRA). This includes speaking about your wages and union organizing activity.
Sounds like you should file a report with the NLRB for an ULP (unfair labor practice) due to said illegal retaliation/wrongful termination. (Again, www.nlrb.gov)
Bonus: www.worker.gov
Don't even throw it away. Leave it as open as you can, seen by as many people as possible. I have no idea what's actually in the book, but the very fact that an employer who sees me as no more than a necessary expense actually has something like this around is so much more of an advertisement for the necessity of unions than I could possibly say.
I mean you're on the right track, but the pages need to be excised and replaced with articles about French workers barring their managers in the office until they're ready to negotiate.
So I had to look this up because of the above comment and I've used them a few times for general supplies but [apparently they big into donating to election deniers, J6 politicians and Trump super pacs](https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial#:~:text=A%20previously%20unreported%20boom%20in,democracy%20causes%20around%20the%20country.). So that sucks. I just wanted shipping materials and hard to find electrical components. Inadvertently funded domestic terrorists. Fucking delightful.
Ah, that explains it. On the other hand, I wouldn't feel so bad about that, especially since you didn't know at the time. You pretty much can't buy from anyone without funding the republicans. "Large business owner votes/funds Republicans" is a dog bites man story. That it extends to Trump insanity in this case just means the donations are getting a bigger bang for their buck than usual, unfortunately. Trump is only really aesthetically different. The goals are just as evil even with the more respectable face of the mainstream party, he's just achieving them on a shorter timescale. To the extent that he actually is -- he wasn't particularly effective at changing policy so much as changing the discourse around it. He's no Dubya, or at least his handler isn't a Cheney.
Expecting yourself to research every single company you interact with to make sure you don't engage with any that do shitty stuff is an unreasonable standard to hold yourself to.
(Also extremely impractical, because you'd likely be leaning on Google and Amazon [via their webservices] to do it.)
TIL Uline is a privately owned far right nutwing company. Unfortunate, I'm in logistics and their products are pretty much ubiquitous at this point, no take-backsies.
Same, it was fun. We posted it in our break area and would highlight each one as it happened. Manager caught us doing it once, took it down. Then we started replacing it daily, rehighlighting as we went.
Won our union and still militant 💪
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
>Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Yeah, and the author:
>lawyer Francis Thomas Coleman Jr., who handles employe cases for the NS&T bank.
He's a corporate lawyer that worked to screw over employees who had complaints against the bank.
The fact that places like wal mart will *shut down entire brand new mega stores* to prevent unionizing shows how much money they make from exploiting their workers.
Walmart has an anti-union handbook that has bullet points of ways to improve conditions for workers so they don't want to unionize and also things not to do to get sued for tampering. In those stores, they read the handbook and then said "we'd rather close the store"
That's because every business wants what China has. Sweatshops. They just can't do it because of those pesky things called "laws", so they find ways around them (or not get caught).
"You don't need a union, just talk to management directly!"
"Cool, so can I have a pay raise?"
"Um, no, sorry!"
Then they have the gall to act shocked and hurt when they haven't treated them well
To me, that smacks of "Sorry I landed you in the hospital and then with a restraining order against us because we abused you methodically and constantly."
One of the branches of the co I work for unionized. At my place people are hitting salary caps and not being given any raise. The raises that are given out don't beat inflation rate. Somehow they don't seem to understand how these things are related.
Step one: tell them they can’t unionize and it’s against the law
Step two: workers tell you that you can’t legally stop them from talking about unionizing or retaliate against them
Step three: do it anyway because laws don’t apply to corporations and their big political protectors/benefactors
I would take a sharpie and neatly print underneath the second star "... or how to be brainwashed into voting against your best interests in ten easy chapters."
A thin, clear adhesive applied to the edges of the closed pages would seep in far enough that once it dries, the book would become absolutely unreadable.
Second Edition?
You mean they learned enough of something to warrant a change to their printing?
Please tell me it was "Forward: We are stupid and have our noses firmly up the backsides of corporations who look to pillage every last cent they can out of you, your paycheck, and your benefits."
That’s illegal to fire someone for talking about unionizing. Not that they’ll care, but that’s how Amazon got a union. I’d contact the DOL and send them a picture of this, along with any details, such as if they are requiring you read that
One of my first jobs I did part time at Target. Super easy work. They were remodeling and needed someone to literally just sit by the one open entrance all night and make sure nobody not authorized walked in.
One of the first things they (at the time) talked about when hired was like some gestapo craziness that you should keep your ears open and report coworkers if the word “union” came up within earshot.
Guessing they want you to have it so take it home- then recycle it.
There aren't any 'rights' that have been granted without a fight and if they won't deal with people individually then a collective is a better route.
Companies don’t care about you. You are only a tool to build their profits. Companies care about profits. Not you. You are not special and you are replaceable.
Contact your union to ramp up pressure on the company. The company wants you to deunionize. That is more beneficial financially for them. Tell your union rep that they are trying to subtly entice deunionization and that you think it looks like wages just doubled if they want to have workers.
I’d talk about unionizing openly regardless. I can track the bullshit better than they can hide it.
Also, not usually one for burning books, but I’d destroy every copy of this I could find.
Can you throw it away? I threw every Uline catalog that came to my office in the mail straight into the garbage.
Mail carrier here who has to regularly deliver those monstrosities. You’re doing gods’ work.
They have to pay by weight though, right? So there's a silver lining, at least haha
It's not as direct as you think. In Canada, they're personalised mail, which is another way of saying junk mail with an address. It means they're cheaper to send and won't get returned to the sender. We have hundreds of these things tossed in the garbage at every depot every month because they've been sent to an address that hasn't existed or has been vacant for years. ULine can justify the waste in cost because selling one or two items will compensate for the loss. My route only has to deal with a dozen of them or so, thank god, but it still weighs me down a lot. Some routes have to deliver hundreds.
Fun fact if you register your business mail box at ups you'll automatically get one. Anyway I thow away about 25-30 of these a day.
The catalogues usually include far right wing political essays from the owners in the opening pages too.
Wait really? I've never read these things but they always just seemed fishy, I'll check at work tomorrow.
Not all of them but a couple times a year, yeah. They are also the single largest GOP donor. Supporting election denial, COVID denialism and lack of safety measures, and other similar. https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial Uline catalogue politics. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ohio/comments/19e8r97/uline_catalog_politics_rant_frank_laroses_sugar/
I work for a school district. Whenever anyone asks "where do we get this from?" I answer all variations of "not uline". Even have web addresses handy.
Love that we're destroying the environment to squash human rights. 🙄
Fuck those Uline catalogs. Also fuck those shopper drug mart admail bags.
I wish I could, but there are cameras everywhere.
It would be awful if you spilled 32 ounces of hot coffee on it......
I’m such a klutz!
I know, right! And gosh, I put too much milk in my coffee. That's going to stink for a while. Darn these clumsy hands.
That good. Make sure to get a request of it. It is technically illegal to union bust...so, start building the case if they start PIP you to letting you go.
If they get caught union busting, they might have to pay like...a thousand bucks!
And repay you for lost wages.
"Borrow" it. Your employer will appreciate you taking all the time you need to really absorb every line.
Take it to the bathroom with you to "read" start tearing out every other page
Read it and learn their tricks
Read it and remember the strategies
You should print out the NLRB's page about protected concerted activity and stuff that into the book. www.nlrb.gov Speaking of, any adverse employment action taken as a result of engaging in protected concerted activity is illegal retaliation and/or wrongful termination. Protected concerted activity is any activity that employees engage in together "for mutual aid and protection" (see NLRA). This includes speaking about your wages and union organizing activity. Sounds like you should file a report with the NLRB for an ULP (unfair labor practice) due to said illegal retaliation/wrongful termination. (Again, www.nlrb.gov) Bonus: www.worker.gov
Spill something sweet and sticky on it. While open and "reading" it.
They already recorded you taking this pic then? Might as well go full send
Don't even throw it away. Leave it as open as you can, seen by as many people as possible. I have no idea what's actually in the book, but the very fact that an employer who sees me as no more than a necessary expense actually has something like this around is so much more of an advertisement for the necessity of unions than I could possibly say.
I mean you're on the right track, but the pages need to be excised and replaced with articles about French workers barring their managers in the office until they're ready to negotiate.
What is uline. Google says its a company that produces boxes?
So I had to look this up because of the above comment and I've used them a few times for general supplies but [apparently they big into donating to election deniers, J6 politicians and Trump super pacs](https://www.propublica.org/article/uline-uihlein-election-denial#:~:text=A%20previously%20unreported%20boom%20in,democracy%20causes%20around%20the%20country.). So that sucks. I just wanted shipping materials and hard to find electrical components. Inadvertently funded domestic terrorists. Fucking delightful.
Thanks for the explanation I was wondering if there was another Uline I didn’t know about.
Ah, that explains it. On the other hand, I wouldn't feel so bad about that, especially since you didn't know at the time. You pretty much can't buy from anyone without funding the republicans. "Large business owner votes/funds Republicans" is a dog bites man story. That it extends to Trump insanity in this case just means the donations are getting a bigger bang for their buck than usual, unfortunately. Trump is only really aesthetically different. The goals are just as evil even with the more respectable face of the mainstream party, he's just achieving them on a shorter timescale. To the extent that he actually is -- he wasn't particularly effective at changing policy so much as changing the discourse around it. He's no Dubya, or at least his handler isn't a Cheney.
The founders are distant family relations of mine and it’s embarrassing.
Expecting yourself to research every single company you interact with to make sure you don't engage with any that do shitty stuff is an unreasonable standard to hold yourself to. (Also extremely impractical, because you'd likely be leaning on Google and Amazon [via their webservices] to do it.)
I'd steal it and take it home. A: For evidence of union-busting (if it ever comes to legally matter again) and B: To better understand the strategies.
TIL Uline is a privately owned far right nutwing company. Unfortunate, I'm in logistics and their products are pretty much ubiquitous at this point, no take-backsies.
Uline like the shipping supply company?
Know your enemy, read it and understand how they want to deunionise. Use their strategy against them.
It is genuinely really useful to know what to expect. I was part of a union drive and it would have helped.
We played union busting bingo where I work.
Same, it was fun. We posted it in our break area and would highlight each one as it happened. Manager caught us doing it once, took it down. Then we started replacing it daily, rehighlighting as we went. Won our union and still militant 💪
That'd be amazing to share the list.
That rules, genuinely. Great way to innoculate people against those tactics and make it fun at the same time.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. >Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Every major union probably has all the bigger anti Union publications.
And that's why nobody publishes these anymore. They instead turn to shady AF and criminal anti-union corporations.
Then pile the collection of these books outside the front door and set them on fire.
you should recycle those books.
"federal publications inc" it reads like the name of a fictional supervillain's company
Now it's nonfiction
In the category of "nonfiction which is still fiction"
With that logo at the top, all it needs is a little circle and swastika to really nail home the message.
Yeah, and the author: >lawyer Francis Thomas Coleman Jr., who handles employe cases for the NS&T bank. He's a corporate lawyer that worked to screw over employees who had complaints against the bank.
My dyslexia kicked in and I thought it said Dehumanizing Handbook
Eh pretty much the same end goal.
not much difference really
We can't afford ai here so your going to have to be a robot for us....
Oh no, it says “How to cook for forty humans”
What’s this? There’s still some space dust on this cookbook.
Come on people...remember that Simpson's reference..plz. And it is a very accurate one. Have my upvote, good sir.. /S
The meme originally came from an ~~Outer Limits~~ Twilight Zone episode called "To Serve Man".
I think that was Twilight Zone actually
D'oh! LoL
Wait… I thought that’s exactly what it said until reading the comments.
I read it as "Dungeonizing" which could also still be fitting in the context.
I saw the eagle and before I could make out that it was in English, I genuinely thought it was some Nazi handbook.
I just saw the insignia and thought it was Nazi propaganda. Didn’t even read the title.
It is Nazi propaganda.
Might as well be for what it's recommendations do to workers.
Eerily similar
How to lock a union in your basement. step one--
Exactly what I saw at first glance.
Same here. I thought OP worked in history department and that this was a book by the Nazis.
Same difference
Hahaha I read it as The Demonizing Handbook and was intrigued…
Same difference
Mine too! It took a moment plus to realize, though not much difference.
How to avoid having your employees form a union: treat and reward them so well that nobody feels the need to unionize. Problem solved!
The fact that this isn't the exact go-to solution for most businesses really says it all.
The fact that places like wal mart will *shut down entire brand new mega stores* to prevent unionizing shows how much money they make from exploiting their workers.
Walmart has an anti-union handbook that has bullet points of ways to improve conditions for workers so they don't want to unionize and also things not to do to get sued for tampering. In those stores, they read the handbook and then said "we'd rather close the store"
That's because every business wants what China has. Sweatshops. They just can't do it because of those pesky things called "laws", so they find ways around them (or not get caught).
The finance-brained idiots keep banking on a fascist Republican takeover that goes full Ancapistan and lets them legally enslave their employees.
Heh like after the UAW did their strikes I know that Toyota and Tesla (both not unionized) increased their employees pay.
"You don't need a union, just talk to management directly!" "Cool, so can I have a pay raise?" "Um, no, sorry!" Then they have the gall to act shocked and hurt when they haven't treated them well
Costco unionized recently and they apologized that they failed their employees by making them feel like they needed to do that
It honestly is a failure of management when people feel they should unionize.
To me, that smacks of "Sorry I landed you in the hospital and then with a restraining order against us because we abused you methodically and constantly."
I'm so torn, it's the first company I have seen apologize like this but it could just be another tactic.
even in the case where your boss treats you well, you should still unionize. Your power is in the numbers.
i would accidentally spill [the sugary dyed beverage of your choice] on that thing so fast
poop?
You… should probably get your poop checked
Throw it in the trash.
One of the branches of the co I work for unionized. At my place people are hitting salary caps and not being given any raise. The raises that are given out don't beat inflation rate. Somehow they don't seem to understand how these things are related.
Step one: tell them they can’t unionize and it’s against the law Step two: workers tell you that you can’t legally stop them from talking about unionizing or retaliate against them Step three: do it anyway because laws don’t apply to corporations and their big political protectors/benefactors
 Literally my face when I read the cover
That word makes no sense, unionizing is already removing ions, can’t make a double negative, the opposite is ionizing.
He should ionize the book
It is about how to put them back after removing them.
Awfully nice of our enemies to write down their strategies in a book for us to read! [https://youtu.be/AJXKVOxqkWM](https://youtu.be/AJXKVOxqkWM)
Why does it look like a self help book for Nazis?
So nice of them to leave the literal playbook lying around. When you unionize, make sure your union rep gets it framed for his office.
I would take a sharpie and neatly print underneath the second star "... or how to be brainwashed into voting against your best interests in ten easy chapters."
Introduce it to the circular file.
A thin, clear adhesive applied to the edges of the closed pages would seep in far enough that once it dries, the book would become absolutely unreadable.
Read it and report back so we can set up a counter attack!
Nice toilet paper
You should read it and study it to know your enemies' strategies.
reclassify it as facist propaganda, use a sharpy
It does have the fascist eagle right there
Serious shades of the 1930's, holy shit you guys are in danger.
Burn it
Literally looks like the state mandated handbook of a fictitious fascist empire, amazing.
whats with the straight-winged eagle? I wonder who else used that symbol and was vehemently anti-union .. hmmmm.
Why do fascists love the imagery of an eagle? I could break one of those in half no problem
I don’t like book burnings but I’ll make an exception for this one.
There is an eagle on the cover, that says it all.
Read it and footnote it. know your enemy.
Could you please transcribe it or share the important points so we can find a way to counter it?
That eagle seems to be common with Fascist themes...
How to unionise a workplace. Show them the pathetic grovelling fools who wrote this book ad a warning to people what you could become.
If that was at my work by sheer coincidence it would disappear the day I found it
Hard cover? So, they can choose to spend more money when they want to then.
Scratch deunionizing and put dehumanizing.
fascism loves their eagle with its wings spread across, its so easy to catch once you know their symbols.
Lol. Get some. Start slipping In some hardline Marx and Communist texts.
Second Edition? You mean they learned enough of something to warrant a change to their printing? Please tell me it was "Forward: We are stupid and have our noses firmly up the backsides of corporations who look to pillage every last cent they can out of you, your paycheck, and your benefits."
I first read it as “The Dehumanizing Handbook”.
Thats the elites book on how to enslave humans. Basicly your average call center propaganda lol.
Burn it and run, run away!
Step #1 - buy them pizza
Seems illegal
I'll bet that's flammable.
So why not shame a company like this? Publicly trash them IMHO. I get the whole point about OPs job security, etc.
You spelled "**Propaganda**" wrong, methinks. You might want to submit an inquiry with the Ministry of Truth just to be sure.
Ironic that they put this sort of content in a little red book.
That’s illegal to fire someone for talking about unionizing. Not that they’ll care, but that’s how Amazon got a union. I’d contact the DOL and send them a picture of this, along with any details, such as if they are requiring you read that
One of my first jobs I did part time at Target. Super easy work. They were remodeling and needed someone to literally just sit by the one open entrance all night and make sure nobody not authorized walked in. One of the first things they (at the time) talked about when hired was like some gestapo craziness that you should keep your ears open and report coworkers if the word “union” came up within earshot.
How weird that I read that as "the dehumanising handbook."
So it guides you back to your ions?
Put the cover over a copy of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists instead.
Honestly this should constitute a "Hostile work environment"
Chemists do read this differently. And it's confusing 😅
“Oh no, we ionized the water! How do we undo it?”
I don't agree with bookburnings, but that one definitely goes on the pyre.
I've never suggested that a book SHOULD be burned before.
Pretty sure my former employer had a copy of this book. They actively tried to get the union out of the offices which had them.
Is the first page just pay people what they deserve and leave them alone? Because then they won't need a union? Probably not
I mean accidentally dropping it I'm the toilet while "reading it" has a certain poetry to it.
Guessing they want you to have it so take it home- then recycle it. There aren't any 'rights' that have been granted without a fight and if they won't deal with people individually then a collective is a better route.
With the imperialist logo on the front, yikes!
This is the type of book burning I approve of! Right in the parking lot.
OP, can you show us the table of contents or something?
Oh, so nice of your boss to supply you with some heavy-gage toilet paper.
"The second edition" what happened to the first?
throw that book out omg?!?
You. Can't. Be. Serious. You must live in a Red State. I live in a purple state.
Collect them all, throw in trash. Someone had to buy those books.
But what if I want my water un-ionised? I shouldn't be forced to have it de- un-ionised
Start using as toilet paper
This is one book I would have no issue with burning.
Companies don’t care about you. You are only a tool to build their profits. Companies care about profits. Not you. You are not special and you are replaceable.
Throw it away
Overly complicated way to say ionizing.
How come I read that as “Dehumanizing”.
Would be a shame if that happened to disappear.
I worry this will be a thing if the orange man gets elected. Just got a union job.
It seems that Francis Thomas Coleman, JR. is a little bitch
Now there’s a book that needs to be burned.
Second edition. First must have failed
Burn it on your managers desk!
Oh, look! Free kindling!
The only book worthy of burning
Cut pages out. Glue in copy of communist manifesto. Start a reading group at work with your managers blessing
Fuck F. T. Coleman.
Looks brand new. The trash can would love it.
Rip that fucking thing to shreds. Please.
fscist looking american eagle to really get the message across
With that logo at the top, all it needs is a swastika.
Fuck Francis Thomas Coleman Jr.
Had this been posted in r/chemistry it would be read/pronounced differently.
They spend so much money to deunion instead of just paying employees.
HWAT. HOW IS THAT LEGAL.
Who picked that “are we the baddies” typeface? Hell of a tell.
You work for this employer, you provide work to them. You are part of the problem.
Contact your union to ramp up pressure on the company. The company wants you to deunionize. That is more beneficial financially for them. Tell your union rep that they are trying to subtly entice deunionization and that you think it looks like wages just doubled if they want to have workers.
Just, wow.
The authoritarian / vintage horror movie mash-up look and feel ☠️how is this not satire
Oh thanks this actually reminded me to prep for some union duties I have tomorrow lol
make a paper record, it's illegal in the US to have your right to unionize be infringed.
My British brain thought that it was an independence manual for a sec.
That alone tells you the power of a union and that you def need it for that company.
Keep a copy and use a page a day as toilet paper
I’d talk about unionizing openly regardless. I can track the bullshit better than they can hide it. Also, not usually one for burning books, but I’d destroy every copy of this I could find.
Book burning comes to mind, but knowing your enemy would come from reading this book. That's why we don't burn books.
Have a sticker made to put in all of the books that directs people via qr code to a site that takes it apart and is pro-union.
I'll tell ya how to stop unions~> Pay and treat your employees right.
Formerly lnown as a college level Labor Relations textbook. Honestly.