 These songs kill bad bosses
The American folk singer, Woody
Guthrie, stuck a label on his guitar. It read: "This machine kills fascists".
He was right - his music made ordinary people confident of their trade
union organisations. Workers who are confident cannot easily be
defeated. In the same sense we say that the Union Song Campaign "kills" bad bosses.
We have appealed for funds and our financial appeal letter can be found
on the RESOURCES page and in the box below.
We hope that other
retired members' branches and Trades Union Councils consider
establishing Union Song Clubs in their towns.
You can use our letter as a template to write your own appeal letter to
help raise funds to set up YOUR Union Song Club.
.
Jake McLeod
Branch Chair |
 Urban
Guerrilla Singing
Our union branch set up the
Union Song Campaign. We meet every month for a lunchtime session. Of
course we enjoy ourselves and have fun. But there is a serious side to
our Song Club.
We will create an effective choir - and get together supportive
musicians - to help trade union organising campaigns.
We are targeting "Bad Bosses".
As well as singing outside the premises of bad bosses, we shall
hand out union recruitment leaflets to their staff!
We have fun and help support the fightback of young workers! Zero
hours contracts were unheard of when most of our branch members were
young!
We shall not let our young folk down - we will stand with them in the
fight for justice, dignity and respect in the workplace!
Mick Rice
Branch Secretary
|
 Global
Song Campaign
As an American woman living in
Scotland, I am proud of this initiative. We have drawn upon some of the
best from the British and US Labour movements. Modern technology allows
us to listen to Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and other artists from all
over the world. We, trade union members who are retired, can add to the
voices of these socialist troubadours to enthuse young workers, here in
Scotland and in every town that sets up Union Song Clubs!
You will find on the RESOURCES page, that you can copy this website and
set it up for your own local Union Song Club. You can also print out
the song book as it is available in an Adobe PDF format.
I am sure that the Union Song Campaign will find resonance across the
English speaking world as a cultural weapon to secure workers' rights!
Anita Shelton
Former Equalities Officer
|
