BIG THREE PICKET CHANTS
CHANTS
(CALL and RESPONSE)
What do we want? No Tiers! When do we want it? Now!
What do we want? No Tiers! When do we want it? Now!
If we don’t get it? Shut it down! If we don’t get it? Shut it down!
If we — don’t — get — it? Shut — it — down!
[Variations: What do we want? COLA! / Contract! / etc.]
No contract? No peace!
No justice? No Jeeps!
No pay? No parts!
No deal? No wheels!
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
When I say everyone you say tier one. Everyone! Tier one!
Everyone! Tier one!
I don’t know but I’ve been told / Big 3 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 / Big 3 walls are lined with gold!
I don’t know but it’s been said / Pay your workers fair instead!
[Variations: Ford’s or GM’s or Stellantis’]
Hey, Stellantis, you can’t hide! / We can see your greedy side!
[Variations: Ford, GM, Mary Barra, Carlos Taveras, Jim Farley, etc.]
What’s disgusting? / Union busting!
What’s outrageous? / Big 3 wages!
[Variations: Ford’s or GM’s or Stellantis’]
Who’s got the power? We’ve got the power!
What kind of power? Union power!
When I say “union” you say “power”: union POWER! union POWER!
When I say “worker” you say “power”: worker POWER! worker POWER!
Show me what democracy looks like / This is what democracy looks like
[Variations: a union, a worker, power, solidarity]
Get up, get down, Detroit is a union town!
Get up, get down, Toledo is a union town!
Get up, get down, <town name> is a union town!
Our union, united / Will never be divided!
[Variations: the people, our movement]
Our union, united, will never be defeated!
Ain’t no power like the power of the union, cuz the power of the union don’t stop! (Say what?)
ONE: we are the union
TWO: a little bit louder
THREE: we want justice for our workers
→ ONE … <repeats louder>
[Variation: THREE: We’re out here fighting FOR a contract]
Hey people! What?
I got a story! What?
Tell the whole damn world this is union territory!
One day longer, one day stronger!
Say it Loud, say it clear, no 2-tier!
<Ford or GM or Stellantis>! Step off it! Put workers over profit!
SONGS
SOLIDARITY FOREVER
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”
