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“Workers Over Billionaires” March Draws Thousands to Boston on Labor Day
Greater Boston Labor Council’s second annual Labor Day Parade calls for election protections, economic relief, and billionaire accountability
BOSTON, MA – This Labor Day, thousands of union members, workers, and community allies marched through Boston behind a banner reading “Workers Over Billionaires.” They called for election protections, economic relief, and greater accountability for billionaires and corporations.
The event came amid significant worker organizing across Massachusetts. More than 1,300 Encore Boston Harbor workers began striking on Friday, September 4, for improved wages, benefits, and workplace protections. Earlier this summer, approximately 4,500 Brigham and Women’s Hospital nurses and Mass General Brigham Home Care clinicians participated in the largest coordinated strike of nurses and healthcare professionals in Massachusetts history.
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“And for the first time in history, the App Drivers Union is now finally at the bargaining table, after years of hard work and dedication. In countless ways, workers are taking collective action to demand dignity at work and our fair share of an economy that’s enriching billionaires and tech giants at the expense of the people.”
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“We march out of necessity, because organizing for our rights is a battle that never ends," said Tim Driscoll, President of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers. “Rights aren’t handed down as a charity by the powerful. They’re fought and won by working people, standing together for the common good. And right here in Boston we’re witnessing what happens when local leaders join with organized labor to build this common good.”
“Every right that we have on the job that we celebrate on Labor Day: the eight-hour workday, the weekend, the overtime, health and safety standards, healthcare, retirement benefits, job security, you name it. It was won by American people just like you,” said Chrissy Lynch, President of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. “We ask for the rules to keep our jobs and our data and our privacy safe from greedy tech corporations, and they say, ‘Oh, no, you’ll stifle competitiveness.’ We say you make Massachusetts competitive by prioritizing working-class people.”
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“We’re here today organized for what workers have earned. They’ve earned power,” said U.S. Senator Ed Markey. “And even when times are tough, like right now, when our communities and our values are under attack, we stand up and fight back. America’s middle class was built by union families, like my family in Malden.”
“In Massachusetts, we are a union state, and I am a proud union, proud labor governor. That’s why I said we’re going to have PLAs on the biggest projects, because we know with PLAs the work is done. Highest quality, on time, ahead of schedule sometimes, and under budget. That’s a PLA,” said Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey. “We don’t have an economy without strong support for labor, and the workers out there delivering and driving it every single day.”
“Our service workers, our building trades, our electricians, our educators, our custodians, our drivers, our carpenters. There is nothing that labor cannot do. This city needs you,” said U.S. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley. “This Commonwealth needs you. And no man, no self-proclaimed king, no nepo baby billionaire, no greedy fat cat — as long as I’m on the job — is going to stop you from getting what you deserve.”
“Today, we celebrate the power of the labor movement. Generations of courage and sacrifice and sheer grit that have given us so many of the protections we take for granted today. But we also gather here in historic space to remind ourselves and the whole world that the fight is still on,” said Boston Mayor Michelle Wu. “For housing affordability, for technology to serve people and not profits. For protections, immigrant neighbors, Black and brown workers, and all of our community members, all that is under attack right now. We stand together; we have each other’s backs.”
Massachusetts app-based drivers also achieved a historic organizing victory this year when the App Drivers Union was certified as the bargaining representative for nearly 70,000 Uber and Lyft drivers across the state.
As marchers gathered, the MGB Union Coalition rallied outside Bain Capital at 200 Clarendon Street. The coalition includes healthcare workers represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association, 1199SEIU, the Committee of Interns and Residents, and the Doctors Council. Workers called attention to Bain Capital Billionaire Chair John Connaughton’s position on the Mass General Brigham Board as healthcare workers continue fighting for fair contracts and workplace protections.
“MGB clinicians are fighting for safe patient caseloads, reasonable productivity standards, and competitive wages so they can safely care for their patients in their homes,” said Katie Murphy, MNA President and Brigham and Women's Hospital Nurse. “What has MGB done since the strikes? The billionaires and multimillionaires who run MGB have repeatedly refused to negotiate. When working people stand together, we have the power to change the world for the better.”
Organized by the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC), Boston’s second annual Labor Day Parade replaced the city’s customary Labor Day Breakfast at the Park Plaza with a public celebration of working people and a demonstration of the labor movement’s commitment to protecting workers and democracy.
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