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500,000+ March in Labor Day “Workers Over Billionaires” Events Nationwide
This Labor Day, more than five hundred thousand laborers, families and community members showed their resistance against the billionaires and corporations who continue to hoard wealth and power at workers’ expense.
This is a pivotal moment for working families. Billionaires are stealing public dollars, separating families and destroying U.S. democracy in their pursuit of profit, but in the streets and on the shop floor, in union halls and the halls of Congress, working people are rising up and fighting for freedom, fairness and security. Working Americans won’t be scared away by the billionaires taking over our government.
Highlights include:
Durham workers marched demanding that Duke pay their fair share (X)
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates calls for solidarity (X)
Albuquerque 6,000 person march (Instagram)
Houston workers at Houston’s Hilton Americas hotel go on strike (Instagram)
Seattle protest of billionaires and corporations like Palantir (Instagram)
St. Louis rally against billionaires and proposed redistricting (Instagram)
San Francisco march and rally (Instagram)
Asheville, NC march (Instagram)
Today saw double the turnout from May Day 2025. At least a half million people stepped out into the streets, with small towns outperforming expectations, and more events to come in NYC and Chicago and other cities next weekend.
Workers and communities are energized and ready to keep up the fight. May Day Strong has scheduled their next National Call for Thursday September 4 at 7pmET to keep planning. Workers are not backing down. Instead, they are more ready than ever to take on the billionaires harming their communities.
“We have to summon our history to rise to the historic moment we’re in today,” explains Stacy Davis Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union. “Enslaved Africans broke the back of the confederacy through a general strike and a coalition with abolitionists. We’re going to need that organizing and that level of coalition to confront Trump’s attempt to bring the confederacy back. It won’t be stopped just in the courts or at the ballot box. Authoritarianism and the robbing of our children's future stops when labor and communities organize together to demand a country that works for workers instead of the billionaires.”
“We know what we are up against. The consolidation of power is happening quickly. We know that the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the few has been a steady march for decades. That has all of us together pushing, demanding, cajoling that this country live up to the poetry of the Constitution and to live up to ‘We the people.’” Becky Pringle, President of the National Education Association.
“We have billionaire oligarchs like Peter Thiel, Antonio Gracias, and Joe Gebbia who are trying to hijack our democracy. They’re trying to increase their own power and wealth and push their draconian vision of the future. We have come together on Labor Day as community and labor to fight for the society that we all need and deserve.” Saqib Bhatti, ACRE Executive Director of Action Center on Race & the Economy.
"The Working Families Party is bringing our message of working-class power to events across America this Labor Day,” said Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party. "From the West Indian Day celebrations in New York City, to events raising awareness of forced labor in Colorado prisons, to standing in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in labor in the Pacific Northwest, Labor Day is about celebrating the power of working people and keeping up the fight for an economy that works for all of us.”
“Since May Day, we see the onslaught of attacks on our communities escalating, our organizing has to escalate with it. We know that billionaires are making record profits while we are losing people every day. And we are facing the moment, through mobilizations, conversations, and training. There’s more of us than there are of them. We just have to organize ourselves together.” Neidi Dominguez, Executive Director of Organized Power in Numbers.
“Today was a powerful show of force and reminder that working people will not cower to billionaire bosses and the politicians they bankroll.” said Mackenzie Baris, Jobs with Justice Deputy Director of Program and Basebuilding. “From San Francisco to Atlanta, from Chattanooga to Long Island, and every state in between, we saw working people of all ages, races, and backgrounds come out strong to call out the billionaires who are extracting from our communities, abducting our neighbors, and dismantling our democracy.”
“We do not suffer from scarcity. We suffer from the greed of corporations and billionaires. Americans know there is more than enough for all of us to thrive if the greedy don’t steal it. We’re not going to let them gaslight us or turn us against each other. Greedy corporations and billionaires profit off our pain – not trans kids, homeless workers, or immigrant families. We the People are going to organize and unite on Labor Day and beyond. And our power will eclipse their greed.” Sulma Arias, People’s Action Institute Executive Director.
"The billionaire class has been allowed to manipulate us for far too long," said Hunter Dunn, National Press Coordinator for 50501. "They have divided workers against each other, they have hollowed out our social services and now they are funding an administration that is tearing families apart. It is time for We the People to take our power back. The 50501 Movement is proud to join in solidarity with workers across the country and in defiance of a government puppeteered by anti-American billionaires."
“The Trump administration and their allies are taking a wrecking ball to the gains of the last 125 years. So on this Workers’ Labor Day, working people are coming together to say we are not each other’s enemies. We are each other’s neighbors, friends, co-workers, and family. No matter the color of our skin, how long we have been in this country, or the people we vote for, we all deserve a fair shot for ourselves and our families,” said Hany Khalil, Executive Director of the Texas Gulf Coast AFL-CIO. “We can make government work for working people, not the billionaires, by building sustained power that shows up every day — not just once every four years. Politics alone won’t fix what’s wrong with this country. Working people who organize together are going to save ourselves.”
“We know that silence in the face of injustice is complicity, and that peace without justice is not peace at all,” said Christine Calareso Bleecker of Joyful Resistance. “And so we fight together and speak loudly in support of those whose voices have been stripped by this cruel administration- those of the worker, the immigrant, the prisoner, the sick, the poor, the vulnerable, and the marginalized. We loudly reject the lack of due process, the cruelty, the dehumanization of our neighbors, and protest in support of our democracy and our humanity.”
“This Labor Day, working families are facing an unprecedented barrage of attacks from the federal government,” said Norma Martinez HoSang, Coalition Director of Connecticut For All. “Workers are looking towards elected officials who are promising change, to actually enact progressive policies that will make a tangible difference in the lives of our working families. No more business as usual, this Labor Day in Connecticut we’re launching a canvassing effort as a reminder of all that’s at stake - and the need to advance our ‘people over billionaires’ agenda.”
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Workers Over Billionaires is organized by the May Day Strong Coalition, stretching from labor, to multi-issue advocacy groups and everyday workers who are fed up with the billionaire agenda. You can find a full list of organizational partners here.
