the Taxi Rank-and-File Coalition Song Book

Cover of the Taxi Rank-and-File Coalition Song Book.  Background information about the songs and the Coalition can be found on the inside front cover.

The Song Book consists of parodies of a number of labor songs written by rank-and-file taxi drivers to highlight their grievances. Labor’s unofficial anthem, Solidarity Forever, is parodied in the songbook, and the words “solidarity forever–throw the bosses in the river” are drawn on the cover as music streaming from the taxi cab.

Image from the Taxi Rank-and-File Coalition Collection, NYU Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.