Funny how in Ferengi society monopolies over the market are encouraged but oh no can't let the workers have any leverage and power to negotiate. It's puzzling anyone would agree to deal with much less work for Ferengi instead of any other society which still uses monetary exchange for goods and services.

Rom quoting the Communist Manifesto healed my soul back in the day, and I didn't even know the reference back in the day. Also Alyosious O'Brien. He was more than a hero. He was a Union man!!!

Rom: Unapolegetic union leader, father of the first Ferengi in Starfleet, genius engineer, and the future Grand Nagus.

through the efforts of ROM as well as his mother, their race learns that true capitalism requires you taking good care of your employees.

The birth of a future Grand nagus

Union! Union! Union! Union! Onion! Onion! Onion! Onion! 😆😆😆😆😆😆

"The Gift of God is Eternity life.".

Great speeches throughout history: Napoleon's adieu to the Old Guard. President Lincoln's address at Gettysburg. General Eisenhower's message before D-Day. Rom founding the Guild of Restaurant and Casino Employees. Almost brings a tear to my eye.

Love how the Ferengi balk at the word alone LOL

First he stood up for his mother, then he stood up for his son. Now, he stands up for himself

At that moment, Rom became the most powerful ferengi.

Instead of big noses they have big ears.

In 3 minutes Rom perfectly explains why unions are good capitalism.

The Virgin Communist Rom vs The Chad Capitalist Quark.

Which side are you on? Which side are you on! 🔨

Isn’t that what happens at the end of the series when he is named the next nagus?

Lenin and Trotsky would be so proud.

Sean O'Brien is the current head of Local 25 Teamsters.😂

To think, the people who wrote this episode are probably on strike right now. Unions make us strong!

Rom was more than a hero. He was a mother fucking union man.

It would have been hilarious if they had said "No" when Rom asked if they were with him. 😜

Gotta love how the Ferengi react to hearing the word “union”, like if it’s true heresy (and considering Ferengi religion, it might as well be).

I hate everything about Forengis, everything.

What most people don’t realize is that unions don’t improve the quality life for everyone. A union causes products and services to become more expensive. As a result, unions have no choice but to demand protection from market forces. An expensive unionized company can’t compete with less expensive non-unionized companies. So what begins as a desire for higher wages becomes an attempt to create a monopoly. And once the union has a monopoly, they can raise their own wages as much as they want, and customers have to pay the higher price. Then finally, the unionized company becomes so burdened with debt, high wages, and political payoffs, that it goes bankrupt. Amtrak, the Public Schools, Detroit, and many branches of the government operate as unionized money-losing boondoggles. They carry trillions of dollars of union pensions on the books which can never be paid. The taxpayer never approved. Military pensions were never approved either. But unions are political blackmailers. They will go on strike and shut-down everything unless their demands are met. In England, Trade Union strikes are happening all over the country. The free market requires competition. Different companies try to offer the best products at the lowest cost. Unions on the other hand, offer the worst products at the highest cost. Our terrible military and naval equipment was made by unions. And they don’t care if they deliver good value or not. They have a monopoly. So don’t be fooled by this pro-union propaganda. The only result of forming a union is high prices, and terrible service. Union members can’t get fired, so nothing matters. The only solution is to dissolve all unions, both in America and in England. Union members are often violent, so they’ll probably burn down half the cities. But that’s just proof that they’ve always been violent. We need to remake the economy of both America and England so that small businesses will be free to compete in any way, with no restrictions.

Biden sees this: Oh no you don't!

It's a simple logic at work. As long as one group of people (employers) benefits through the exploitation of another (employees) this unequal relationship will continue. The bosses have the money and the authority, and workers are forced to obey. Worker vs boss is an unequal struggle, that is why workers have to organize. Collectively they can use their power (labor that makes everything run) to demand the treatment they deserve. The problem with most unions is another power imbalance, the leadership structure. A small group of leaders making decisions and negotiating on behalf of the majority of workers will lead to all the same problems of government - corruption, greed, etc. The alternative is not no unions, but a structure where the rank and file, every worker, has a voice and decisions are made collectively, not by an empowered minority. Right now we have minority rule and things are terrible. The alternative, majority rule would obviously be better - it's for the majority. But even still, there doesn't have to be any "rule" by anyone over anybody else. Decisions can be made through consensus, where compromise is used to make sure the most people are satisfied, and everybody is heard, so that there are no more "winners" and "losers" but people tackling their problems together, and trying to reach the most beneficial solution for the most people.

God, I wish I lived there and not here on this earth, where the worker toils and toils to the tune of his oppressor.

Wow Rom is actually a very compelling orator

Rom is right Screw that FCA !!!!!

Whenever someone says something dumb like, "Star Trek is not about politics!", this is one of the episodes I point to and say, "Oh really?"

Comrade Rom

"If they are gonna come after us, let's give them a good reason!" Becomes Nagus

Expand or Die, Rule 90

"Oh, I'm a Union man, amazed at what I am..."

I love how the raspy one goes from being unable to say the word 'union' to chanting it loudly and enthusiastically in under 3 minutes. That's some charisma, Rom.

I love the subtle attention to detail right at the end if you listen closely you can hear the other ferrangi say "did he say what I think he said"

A show can be made with just all ferengi only, and it will work.

Hehehehe

Are capitalist bootlickers seeing this and crying about how DS9 is woke? 😂

Wait until the FCA learns that unions can be used to leech money from laborers. They got to read up on the mafia and how they exploited unions.

Take control!

“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. “Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth.” -IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) preamble

How to get immediately fired at Walmart.

That one Ferengi in the front looked like he was about to pass out!

Just want to say Chase Masterton was an absolute dime as Leeta.

In China, even mentioning forming a union is an automatic ten-year prison sentence to.....you guessed it....a labor camp. As Jon Stewart said in response: "What's the difference?"

Weyounion

Keldar's bloodline produced some of the toughest Ferengi ever.

Paid vacation? You mean Quark is going to pay him to take a vacation? That doesn't sound fair!

More socialist indoctrination from Star Trek