Uncle Zeke's Place

Description: Proverbs 13:22 - The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Description: Ezekiel 18:20 - Four words. The soul who sins shall die.

Description: Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. Rumi.

Description: A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu.

Description: Equal pay for equal work. End the two-tier systems that divide new hires from veterans. For UAW auto workers, Teamsters, and anyone fighting tier contracts. Uncle Zeke Tees.

Description: Chicago, May 4, 1886. Workers rallied for the eight hour day, a bomb went off, and the state hanged four men for it. Haymarket is why May Day exists. For labor history people, union members, and anyone who knows the price of the 40 hour week. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: The song. The slogan. The one rule. Solidarity forever for the union makes us strong. For labor organizers, singing union members, and anyone who knows the anthem by heart. Uncle Zeke Tees.

Description: Marx and Engels called it. 170 years later it still hits. Workers of all countries, unite - you have nothing to lose but your chains. For socialists, DSA members, and international labor. Uncle Zeke Tees.

Description: The original demand. Eight for work, eight for rest, eight for what we will. For labor historians, union organizers, and anyone who still works too damn many hours. Uncle Zeke Tees.

Description: Don't mourn, organize. Joe Hill's last words before a Utah firing squad in 1915, and the marching orders for a century of labor organizing since. For Wobblies, union organizers, and anyone who carries the torch. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Which side are you on. The oldest question in any labor fight, and still the only one that matters when the contract is on the table. For union members, organizers, and anyone who had to pick. Front and back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: One word. The only one that gets the boss's attention. For union members walking the line, organizers, and anyone who knows when it is time. Front and back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Stand Up. Two words, the whole fight. The rally cry of the stand up strike and every shop floor since. For UAW members, auto workers, and anyone tired of sitting down. Front and back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Two-line rally cry. Stand Up when the fight starts. Stand Strong when it gets long. For union members, rank-and-file organizers, and anyone in a long fight. Uncle Zeke Tees.

Description: Your grandfather had a pension. Working class labor history tee about what we lost.

Description: Retire with dignity. Working class statement tee about pension rights and earned retirement.

Description: Walter Reuther was right. UAW labor history tribute tee for union members and labor history fans.

Description: Pay us what we're worth. Working class wage rights statement tee for union members and laborers.

Description: A living wage is not a luxury. The line every working person has thought and not enough have said out loud. For union members, service workers, and anyone who has had to pick which bill gets paid. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Workers rights are human rights. The line that built the labor movement and still holds. For union members, organizers, and anyone who knows dignity at work is dignity, period. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: The right to organize is a human right. Not a favor, not a perk, a right. Wear it to the meeting, the picket line, or Red Shirt Wednesday. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration. Abraham Lincoln. Not the quote you expected. The one you needed.

Description: Union pipefitter. We are the standards. Union pride tee for pipefitters.

Description: Pensions built the middle class. Working class labor history tee. Union pride and pension rights.

Description: Proletariat. That means you. Working class labor tee that calls out the wearer.

Description: Rest is resistance. Working class labor tee about the right to rest.

Description: Eugene Debs. Socialist patriot. American labor history tribute tee.

Description: Working-class human rights enthusiast. The disarming deflection that says everything without picking a fight. Pure white type, three-line stack, Uncle Zeke voice. For organizers, blue-collar progressives, and anyone tired of pretending dignity is a niche interest. Made by Uncle Zeke.

Description: Give us our pensions back. They were earned, they were promised, and they were taken at the bargaining table when nobody was watching. For union members who remember what retirement was supposed to look like and the younger ones fighting to get it back. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Restore the pensions. A defined benefit was the deal for a working life, and a 401k with a match is not the same deal. For union members bargaining to bring it back and retirees who know the difference. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: End the tiers. Same work, same plant, same risk, same pay. Two tier contracts split the shop floor on purpose and the only fix is to bargain them out. For UAW members and every union that has lived with a tier. Front and back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: They bailed out the banks. We lost our pensions. Same decade, two different outcomes, and everybody on the shop floor knows which side of the ledger they landed on. For union members, retirees, and anyone who remembers 2008. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: May Day every day. International Workers Day started with the eight hour day fight in Chicago, and the fight did not end on May 2nd. For union members, organizers, and anyone who treats solidarity as a daily habit. Front and back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: An injury to one is an injury to all. The oldest rule in the labor movement and the whole reason a union works. When they come for one of us they get all of us. For union members, organizers, and anyone who shows up for the person next to them. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: The working class is on the ropes. Wages flat, prices up, pensions gone, and the only thing that ever changed that math was people organizing. For union members, organizers, and anyone still swinging. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.

Description: Solidarity is not a sentiment, it is a fact. Eugene V. Debs said it and a century of picket lines proved it. Solidarity is not how you feel, it is what you do when they come for the person next to you. For union members, organizers, and labor history people. Back print. Red Shirt Wednesday ready. Uncle Zeke, Moravia NY.