Worker's Song

Not for me, but hopefully for thee...

These are the facts--union members make more money, have better benefits, more job security, and are less likely to be injured on the job.  Why the hell else do you suppose the wealthy have been creating campaigns to malign unions for as long as they've been around?  Heaven forbid a working man or woman should get a decent share of the pie.

Whether its stagnant wages or Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich or Corporate America causing the Great Recession, unions are enjoying a resurgence these days (as I type this I remember my father telling me many years ago that unions would eventually make a comeback because the powerful would get too greedy)--witness the crushing defeat of right to work in Missouri and recent polls which show labor unions with an approval rating of 62%, their highest rating in fifteen years.

We obviously have far to go in rebuilding our middle class and reclaiming the wages and benefits that unions fought so hard for but the wealthy elite have stolen, but here on Labor Day there is at least some hope, as a great man once sang, that a change is gonna come.

So Happy Labor Day--and let the union supporting and worker celebrating Dropkick Murphys brighten your day with this little tune saluting those of us who actually do the work:

Fuck Donald Trump,
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