Gregg Shotwell Jul 10 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 cour...
Gregg Shotwell Jun 15 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 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 act...
Gregg Shotwell May 8 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 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 up...
Gregg Shotwell Apr 21 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 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...
Gregg Shotwell Apr 4 Live Bait & Ammo #180: Which side are you on, Rory, which side are you on? How many autoworkers have died from Covid-19? How many more UAW families are awaiting diagnosis? Who is ultimately responsible for the he...
Gregg Shotwell Mar 15 Live Bait & Ammo #179: Go/No-Go They always assign me the simplest jobs. Jobs that don’t require a thought: no skill, no dexterity, no mechanical or analytical aptitude....
