Union Strong by Findlay Napier

I was commissioned to write this for the 125th Anniversary of the Scottish Trade Union Congress. It's been a really interesting project. I've learned loads about Scottish Trade Unionism from winning women shop workers the right to a seat at work (!) to tackling the cost of living crisis via Jimmy Reid, Joe Hill and the lies hidden behind voluntary partnerships. Thank you STUC for this enlivening challenge of squeeing 125 Years of activism into just under four minutes.

Many thanks to Rab and Ricky who helped point me in the right direction and with some finessing prior to the final, really final, draft. Also thanks to Tom Wright who's enthusiasm, professionalism and vision grew a poorly recorded mobile phone demo into a stadium (folk) rock band in a matter of a few hours.

There are two version of the the song. One is the full band version and the other is just guitar and vocal.

One of Scotland's finest songwriters. In 2021 he was nominated for Musician of the Year at the Scot’s Trad Music Awards and in 2018 he was the first solo act to be nominated for Live Act of the Year. Described as Micheal Marra meets Elvis Costello, a Caledonian Loudon Wainwright or a Scottish James Taylor this master storyteller's songs are full of earthy humour, hopeless love and biting satire.