LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK: Union Songs for Kids!
Lawrence Smoot | Published on 8/9/2024
Lisa Simpson’s Union Strike Song leads off a new LHF YouTube playlist put together by longtime labor activist Karen Nussbaum (9 to 5, Working America), designed specifically for youngsters. “I teach my grandchildren to stand up for themselves and to be kind to others,” says Nussbaum “That’s Union 101. But how do I teach them they are part of a long tradition of fighting alongside others for what’s right? How do they learn they are from a union family? Union songs for kids! If they’re singing ‘you can’t scare me, I’m stickin’ to the union’ at 4, then you’ve got them for life.“
That’s why Labor Heritage Foundation is making these kid-friendly union -- and union related -- songs available. Play them for the young people in your life and they’ll learn to “stand tall” and that there is, indeed “power in a union.”
Email us at info@laborheritage.org to add your favorite union songs; as Pete Seeger always said, “Carry it on!”