Listen to Brooklyn Cablevision Workers' Labor Day Rap

Brooklyn Cablevision workers kicked off the Labor Day weekend with a powerful music video about their struggles to join CWA.

The song, "We Are The Union," features two Cablevision technicians, Jerome "Jaywalk" Thompson, Jr. and McDaniel "Grimm" Paul, and a former customer-service agent, Shatoya Thomas-Flemmings.

"I'll be a pain in the colon / For your boy Jimmy Dolan," Thompson raps, name-checking Cablevision's CEO. "His pockets are swollen / Reaping what my labor's sowing."

Thompson, Paul and Thomas-Flemmings have been performing live versions "We Are The Union" at rallies all year, but they were finally able to immortalize their song thanks to videographer Anna Mumford. A number of red-shirted Cablevision technicians make appearances as extras in the music video, including Lawrence Hendrickson as the song's guitarist.

In January, 282 Brooklyn Cablevision workers joined CWA Local 1109, becoming the company's first employees to unionize. Since then, workers at Brooklyn Cablevision contractors Vision Pro and Falcon Communications have voted to join CWA.

Watch the video here:

Jerome "Jaywalk" Thompson, Jr. raps about workers' struggles to join CWA.