Union Chants for Grocery Strikes
Not sure what to do on the picket line? Try a union chant or song! Does anyone on the picket line play an instrument, like a guitar? Have them bring it along to play! Or have someone write a new song or rap, like UAW auto makers did.
Take a video and send it to caitlyn@ew4d.org, or tag us on social media @EW4Democracy.
Chants
Everywhere we go / Everywhere we go
People want to know / People want to know
Who we are / Who we are
So we tell them / So we tell them
We are the union / We are the union
The mighty mighty union / The mighty mighty union
Fighting for justice / Fighting for justice
And striking for a contract / And striking for a contract
I don’t know but I’ve been told / Kroger walls are lined with gold!
Lies and tricks will not divide / workers standing side by side!
I don’t know but I’ve been told / Kroger walls are lined with gold!
I don’t know but it’s been said / Pay your workers fair instead!
What’s disgusting? / Union busting!
What’s outrageous? / Kroger wages!
Our union, united / Will never be divided!
King Soopers! Step off it! Put workers over profit!
Songs
SOLIDARITY FOREVER (click here for the tune)
When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong!
CHORUS
Solidarity Forever (3×)
For the union makes us strong!
It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made
But the union makes us strong
CHORUS
Solidarity Forever (3×)
For the union makes us strong!
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong
CHORUS
Solidarity Forever (3×)
For the union makes us strong!
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand fold
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong
CHORUS
Solidarity Forever (3×)
For the union makes us strong!
To the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED (click here for the tune)
We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be move
Just like a tree that's planted by the water
We shall not be moved
The union is behind us, we shall not be moved
The union is behind us, we shall not be moved
Just like a tree that's planted by the water
We shall not be moved
We stand and fight together, we shall not be moved
The union is behind us, we shall not be moved
Just like a tree that's planted by the water
We shall not be moved
I DON’T WANT YOUR MILLIONS, MISTER (click here for the tune)
I don't want your millions, Mister,
I don't want your diamond ring.
All I want is the right to live, Mister,
Give us now, a fair contract.
Now, I don't want your Rolls-Royce, Mister,
I don't want your pleasure yacht.
All I want's just food for my babies,
Give to me, a fair contract.
We worked to build this country, Mister,
While you enjoyed a life of ease.
You've stolen all that we built, Mister,
Now our children starve and freeze.
So, I don't want your millions, Mister,
I don't want your diamond ring.
All I want is the right to live, Mister,
Give us now, a fair contract.
