USW Local 1999

Labor Union in Indianapolis, Indiana

You're awesome. You're doing something right if you have the fascist taking time to criticize you. K...eep up the good work. Fight on!
There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hands of a worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses' way, sir

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a union

Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws can not defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone
What a comfort to the widow, a light to the child
There is power in a union

The Union forever defending our rights
Down with the blackleg, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a union

Billy Bragg See More

Carrier Deal to keep roughly 1,000 jobs of the 1,400 going to Mexico for an hourly wage there of $6 ...bucks an hour. Saw this, lived this in the rust belt in Wisconsin. UAW aluminum foundries workers offered $7.25 an hour foundries all gone now. The proof will be in the pudding. See More