#iupat

YOUR THING HERE!!! ➡️ 👕👚🩳

Are you an artist, you-tuber, v-tuber, video essayist, podcaster, content creator, writer, blogger, vlogger, clogger, e-girl or any other person working in the precarious marketplace that is the internet?

Have you been struggling with the idea of offering branded merchandise in a world of unethical production and consumption?

Well...

WE WANNA WORK WITH YOU! 🫵

We’re SHKY.INK, also known as Shaky Hands!

We’re a worker-owned, union screen printing cooperative located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! (We’re organized with the IWW and the IUPAT!)

We make 100% vegan, water-based, cruelty-free, union-printed merch FOR YOU!

WE DO IT ALL

We design and make a web store with your unique branding and style guides in mind.

We help you design merch or produce your existing designs and mail you samples to proof.

Your fans buy merch, we process the orders, print by hand and ship directly to them!

At the end of the month, we send you your commission via your preferred payment method.

And you get that SWEET SWEET PASSIVE INCOME!

That’s it! And it’s FREE!*

We earn a flat, previously agreed-upon cost per garment to pay for blanks and our labor. Your customer pays for shipping and handling, and you get everything else! Name your price!

Harvey Keitel wearing an eye-patch asks: “So, if I list a shirt for $25?...”

We reply: “And it costs us $14.03 to print...”

Harvey concludes: “I get $10.97 per shirt!”

FOR DOING NOTHING AT ALL!

So, help a small cooperative stay afloat and get some TASTY PASSIVE INCOME to boot!

Message me here on tumblr.com @anti-workshop !!! Get your merch on bodies!

*Depending on how complicated your store portal design end up being, we might ask for like, $50 to cover the cost of setup.

Hi, we’re the Anti-Workshop, a worker-owned, union-represented cooperative. We operate a design and screen printing business that is democratically run through worker consensus. That means we decide when we work, for how long, what we do, how we do it and what is done with the product of our labor.

It is our belief that workers produce and reproduce all the useful value of our society. It is also our belief that the working class is not receiving its due share of the value we create together.

The anti-workshop comprises organizers, unionists and radicals who believe that the conditions of work—as they exist under the current economic and political system—are tedious, empty, abusive, exploitative and ultimately pointless for the majority of workers. We know we are not alone.

There is a growing movement of workers who want to re-imagine what work is and how we undertake it, who recognize that capitalism is designed to wring wealth out of our bodies and minds, and funnel it to the privileged elite of the owning and employing class.

We want to use what means of production we have access to (our printing press and our creativity) to provide materials for like-minded workers who are fed up and want to fight back.

100% of the profits we receive from this shop goes to the IWW Strike and Hardship Fund, a program of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Learn more about how we operate and how long your shirt will take to get to you and why, at the how we work page. If you need support organizing on the job, visit our organizing page or reach out.

We're also expanding September 1st, which is terrifying and exciting.

We're also in talks with our other labor council to potentially get a special bargaining agreement and local devoted to worker owned co-ops. Anyone curious, look into VALU coop in Canada and the work they're doing with the ACWU.

SO! If your organizing campaign or GMB or IUB or community garden or food not bombs or IWOC or tenants union or band or WHATEVER needs custom merch, please reach out. We need money and we will cut you a good rate.

Buy merch at anti-work.shop to support campaigns and our union worker co-op incubator. We're back!

We just reached our minimum threshold for printing shirts! Everyone who ordered, we’ll be in touch with you soon.

Thanks everyone who has supported the IWW Strike and Hardship fund! This project will continue as long as we're around and printing.

EMTs, please take breaks. Get some sleep. Stay hydrated. Fuck capitalism.

New shirt designs coming soon, if y'all wanna support striking workers and sport some antiwork garb.

Worker power is the ability to leverage our collective strength on the job. When workers organize together, we win. Higher pay, fringe benefits, more control over scheduling, safer conditions, accountability for managers and bosses, defense against firings.

When workers organize industrially, well, that’s when we win everything. 

https://anti-work.shop/

We’re dual carders here at the print shop, so we get to see the differences structurally and tactically between business unionism and solidarity unionism. Here’s my new poster idea: