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This Labor Day at 1,000+ events across the country labor and community stepped up to demand an end to the billionaire takeover. Billionaires are stealing from working families, destroying our democracy, and building private armies to attack our towns and cities.
Just like any bad boss, the way we stop the takeover is with continued, escalating collective action. We are May Day Strong, working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover–not just through the ballot box or the courts, but through building a bigger and stronger movement.
On September 1st more than half a million of us continued the movement we launched on May 1st. Join us in demanding #NoKings and #NoBillionaires October 18th.
1,000+ Events
“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.
“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.
“We have to summon our history to rise to the historic moment we’re in today, 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.”
Stacy Davis Gates, President of the Chicago Teachers Union
“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.
"The Working Families Party is bringing our message of working-class power to events across America this Labor Day 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.”
Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party
“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 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. 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.”
Hany Khalil, Executive Director of the Texas Gulf Coast AFL-CIO
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Albuquerque Teachers Federation (AFT Local 1420)
American Humanist Association
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Americans for Tax Fairness
Asheville Fights Back Network
Ask Nurse and Doctors
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA
Association of Professional Flight Attendants
Atlanta Democratic Socialists of America
Black Housing Policy Network
Black Lives Matter Grassroots East Atlanta-Dekalb
BlueGreen AllianceCambridge Indivisible
Camel City United Indivisible
CFT - A Union of Educators and Classified Professionals
Charleston Worker Center
Climate Action Now Western Mass
Climate Hawks Vote
College Democrats of America
Communications Workers of America
Community Labor United
Connecticut For All
Consumer Federation of America
Cook County College Teachers Union
Corporate Accountability
Court Accountability Action
Debt Collective
DemCast USA
Democracy Forward
Disability Culture Lab
El Futuro es Nuestro
ESSN
Jobs with Justice
Fair Share America
Families for Strong Public Schools
Feminist Majority
Field Team 6
Fix Democracy First
FL National Organization for Women
For Liberation And Resistance Everywhere
Forsyth County Association of Educators
Fossil Free Media
Franklin County Democratic Committee
Free Mom Hugs
Free Speech For People
Freedom Writers Collaborative
Fridays For Future NYC
GenDemocracy | Resisting Project 2025 Campaign
General Strike Carolinas
General Strike US
Good Trouble Trumbull
Greater Orlando National Organization for Women
Health Care Voter
Indivisible
Indivisible Guilford County
Indivisible Bowie and Beyond (MD)
Indivisible CA 45
Indivisible Dane County WI
Indivisible Lake Norman
Indivisible Marin
Indivisible NWIL Crystal Lake
Indivisible OCNJ
Indivisible Polk Florida
Indivisible Upper Cape
Indivisible Western Lake County
Jobs with Justice - national
Joyful Resistance South Florida
Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Labor for Democracy
Lake County Indivisibles
League of Conservation Voters
Let's Stay Civil
Louisville Socialist Action
Malden Education Association
March Chant Repeat
MLK Labor
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Move to Amend
MoveOn
National Domestic Workers Alliance
National Nurses United
National Union of Healthcare Workers
NEA
New Hanover County Democratic Party
Newtown Action Alliance
North Carolina Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150
Office of DC's US (shadow) Representative
Oil and Gas Action Network
Oil Change International
Opportunity Arizona
Orcas Rising
Oregon League of Conservation Voters
Organization for Black Struggle
Organized Power in Numbers
Our Revolution
Paid Leave for All Action
Patriotic Millionaires
People For the American Way
People Power United
People's Action Institute
Peoples Center
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Physicians for a National Health Program - New York Metro Chapter
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Progress Kentucky
Progressive Maryland
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Public Citizen
Public Rail Now
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Railroad Workers United
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Solidarity Lancaster
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South Bay Progressive Alliance
Southern Workers Assembly
Southwestern Illinois Central Labor Council
Standing for Democracy
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Strong Economy For All Coalition
Sunrise Movement
T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights
TakeAction Minnesota
The 50501 Movement
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The Just Power Alliance
The Labor Force
The New York Progressive Action Network
The People's Lobby
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Third Act Maryland
Third Act Massachusetts
Third Act Union
Third Act Virginia
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Union of Southern Service Workers-SEIU
Unitarian Universalist Association
Upper West Side Action Group
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Vermont Conservation Voters
Vote Save America
Voters of Tomorrow
Western Circle of NC PPC
Win Without War
Wisconsin Conservation Voters
Women Forward
Women's March
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Working Families Power
York County Rising
who we are
Our Demands to Build the Society We Deserve:
Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.
Fully funded schools, and healthcare and housing for all.
Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
Invest in people not wars.
The most MAY DAY events IN US HISTORY.
WE WORK & FIGHT FOR OUR FAMILIES, NOT BILLIONAIRES FORTUNES - AND WE’RE JUST GETTING STARTED
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The billionaires are waging a war on working people—and on May Day, international workers’ day, hundreds of thousands of us stood together and stood strong, fighting for public schools over private profits, healthcare over hedge funds, shared prosperity over free market politics. Working people built this nation and we know how to take care of each other. We won’t back down—we will never stop fighting for our families and the rights and freedoms that ensure access to opportunity and a better life for all Americans. Their time is up.
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At more than 1,000 events from Alaska to Florida, from the streets of Philly to the streets of LA, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country to demand a country that works for our families, not billionaires’ fortunes. Check out more highlights on social media with the hashtags #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025
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From our biggest cities to some of our smallest towns, we saw incredible turnout this May Day. A few of our highlights: Phoenix, AZ; Burnsville, NC; Los Angeles, CA; Portland, ME; Philadelphia, PA.
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Workers with AFSCME 3299 walked off the job across the University of California system; hundreds of nurses at UMC struck in New Orleans; UNITE HERE Local 274 did an action in Philadelphia and UAW struck in FL & CO. Read more here.
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This Day of Action happened because of the incredible work of our many partner organizations, including dozens of additional partners who helped hold down events across the country. Partners who signed on to the May Day Strong coalition included Bargaining for the Common Good, the National Education Association, Indivisible, Working Families Party, the Chicago Teachers Union, MoveOn, Public Citizen, and many more. Check out the full list here.