“It Is Good to Be with Family, Movement Family”—Labor’s on the March - Non Profit News

“It Is Good to Be with Family, Movement Family”—Labor’s on the March - Non Profit News

Labor Day, which became a US national holiday in 1894, was once a very big deal. Photos such as this one taken in Buffalo, NY, in 1900 speak to the tens of thousands of workers who would march on Labor Day to be counted and to stand up for their rights. Labor’s mobilization in 2025 was hardly on the scale of 1900. But this year’s marches nonetheless mark an impressive revival of an old labor union tradition. In Boston, this year’s Labor Day marc…

‘Workers Over Billionaires’ protestors march down Court Street in Labor Day rally

Residents from across the Southern Tier gathered in Downtown Binghamton on Monday afternoon as part of a nationwide rally to show solidarity with workers and organized labor. Protesters stood along Court Street and in front of the Broome County Courthouse, waving handmade signs reading “Workers Unite! Stop Trump” and “We The People Say No Kings.” Hundreds of other “Workers Over Billionaires” protests occurred nationwide on Labor Day in a campaig…