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"A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once,
but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over and
I maintain that if a person can put a few cold, common sense facts
into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor to take the
dryness out of them, he will succeed in reaching a great number
of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read
a pamphlet or an editorial on economic science."
-- Joe Hill
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About
Us
Members of the chorus represent many different unions such as...
... the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World),
American Federation of Teachers, SEIU Local 535, United Educators of San
Francisco, Plumbers/Pipefitters Local 467, Sign and Display Local 510,
California Faculty Association, Nabet-CWA51, IBEW 1275, Carpenters Local
22, OPEIU 3, NWU Local 3, ILWU, AFSME, Local 2, Teamsters Local 85, and
others.
Our musical director...
Musical Director Pat Wynne is a
performer, music teacher and vocal coach as well as a long time labor
activist and organizer. She founded the Chorus in the spring of 1999 and
we made our singing debut at the Reclaiming May Day Celebration in Dolores
Park on May 1, 1999. Pat arranges many of the pieces we perform and writes
original songs for the Chorus, often in collaboration with Bernard Gilbert.
Pat teaches parttime in Labor Studies and Music at City College of San Francisco and at Laney College in Oakland where she conducts the Labor Chorus.
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