Happy Labor Day!

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.

Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
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.

Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
Solidarity forever!
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.

I'm working today, myself, but I'll be thinking about the fighting machinists of IAM District 751, who find themselves on the picket line this Labor Day. It's day three of their strike against the Boeing Company and you don't have to be a member of IAM to show your solidarity and lend a hand.