No Sweat

We sew the clothes, the clothes that you buy;

We can’t afford them for ourselves; the price is too high.

Our families need food; we don’t need name brands.

We’d just like a fair share of the money that’s made off of our working hands.

We need the right to organize No sweat!

No forced overtime No sweat!

Clean drinking water No sweat!

Clean air to breathe…

No bosses screaming, no forced pregnancy tests,

The right to speak and be heard;

We are workers spreading the word: No sweat!

There’s lint in the air, our lungs are on fire.

We work behind tall cement walls topped with barbed wire

We don’t have a voice, so we can’t complain

They just kick us out whenever we shout or cry out in pain.

They call us sweatshop workers; we live from hand to mouth;

We took the jobs you lost up north when the companies moved south.

We don’t have a union; we barely get by; we need your support; we need you to join in when you hear our cry.

No sweat!

We need the right to organize No sweat!

No forced overtime No sweat!

Clean drinking water No sweat!

Clean air to breathe…

No bosses screaming, no forced pregnancy tests,

The right to speak and be heard;

We are workers spreading the word: No sweat!

The wages are low, the hours are long;

They dock our pay if we do anything they say is wrong.

They hire us girls, they think we’ll obey,

but we feel the power when we work together and when we say:

No sweat!

We need the right to organize No sweat!

No forced overtime No sweat!

Clean drinking water No sweat!

Clean air to breathe…

No bosses screaming, no forced pregnancy tests,

the right to speak and be heard;

we are workers spreading the word: No sweat!

We are workers spreading the word: No sweat! No sweat!