Gregg Shotwell Jun 1 Live Bait & Ammo #187: Shop Talk I haven’t forgotten the factory: dull, dirty, ugly, loud, and dangerous. The shopfloor teemed with angry people who hated their jobs....
Gregg Shotwell Jan 23 Live Bait & Ammo #186: Do the Right Thing The contract contained a poison pill coated in a signing bonus. It slid down easy as a Mickey Finn, but had an aftertaste like regret...
Gregg Shotwell Jul 10, 2020 Live Bait & Ammo #185: Protect and Serve “It’s police unions that are the problem,” my friend said, “Ask any mayor, they’ll tell you.” Which is to say, just ask the boss. Of...
Gregg Shotwell Jun 15, 2020 Live Bait & Ammo #184: Shout Them Down and Throw Them Out Active and retired Flower Funders are flouncing around like weekend revolutionaries in flip-flops eager as cheerleaders to heap accolades...
Gregg Shotwell May 22, 2020 Live Bait & Ammo #183: Direct Action Beats Sell Out Bargaining What do you do if your union is controlled by a Concession Caucus — a bureaucracy devoted to helping the Corps eliminate jobs? Direct...
Gregg Shotwell May 8, 2020 Live Bait & Ammo #182: Take a Chance on Gamble? The Culinary Union in Las Vegas demands 100% testing of all workers before they will agree to go back to work. Workers “are not rats in a...
Gregg Shotwell Apr 28, 2020 The World is in Their Care The power of blessing in a poem is that it weaves a new vision of the world. The blessing is awareness. A blessing calls sanctity down...
Gregg Shotwell Apr 21, 2020 We Want Action - Poem dedicated to Travis Watkins in Corona Time Brother Rory We don’t want to hear about your laundromatic Ethics Committee appointed by the cons for the cons of the cons We don’t want...
Gregg Shotwell Apr 11, 2020 Live Bait & Ammo #181: Beneath the Bottom of the Barrel Lies a Snitch Article 41 of the UAW Constitution describes the duties of a UAW member. Section 2 states: “It shall be the duty of each member to render...
