Celebrate & Fight Back on May Day
Join us and hundreds of millions of people around the world on May 1st to celebrate May Day and defend more than a century of powerful gains by workers and labor movements.
May Day was started to commemorate the 1886 Haymarket strikers in Chicago: mostly immigrant workers who rallied for an eight-hour workday and were attacked, their leaders hanged. It has evolved into a global day of action to recognize labor organizers’ hard-won victories and continue mobilizing for workers’ rights, including fair wages and safer working conditions.
This May 1st the stakes are high. The Trump Administration is carrying out Project 2025’s brutal plans to decimate workers’ rights and their unions.
As one of many examples during these first 100 days, Trump terminated the collective bargaining agreement for 45,000 workers of the Transportation Security Administration – effectively ending their union representation.
The tone was set right out of the gate when, on January 7th, the President-Elect moved to cripple the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – the federal agency that protects unions and the general welfare of workers – by firing and replacing the chairperson, Gwynne Wilcox, the first Black woman ever on the board.
If the NLRB can’t function, low-income people of color are disproportionately harmed.
Unions negotiate for higher wages, improved benefits, reduced income equality, and workplace protections. While these rights benefit all workers, research shows low-income Black and Latino workers stand to benefit the most.
This May Day, we recommit to ensuring that working-class renters can afford to live where they work and are free from the threat of eviction. We will continue to organize for public investment that expands mass transit for workers who rely on it and creates quality green union jobs.
Join us in the streets to celebrate the gains of workers for a more just economy and to protest the new administration’s policies harmful to working people.
San Francisco: 4pm at Civic Center Plaza
May Day in the Bay: Immigrant & Workers Rights – One Struggle, One Fight
Stand together to demand justice, dignity, and rights for all workers and immigrants!
Rise up for a pathway to citizenship, an end to deportations, protection of sanctuary spaces, workers’ rights without compromises, and fair wages and housing for all.
Oakland: 3pm to 7pm, Fruitvale Plaza start, march to San Antonio Park
All Power to the Workers: Defend, Uplift, Organize, Fight Back!
March in celebration and resistance alongside families, friends, neighbors, and co-workers to stand in solidarity with working people across all borders and continue the fight for economic and social justice.