Villagers joined together in a “Workers Over Billionaires” Labor Day rally in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown.
A large crowd gathered Monday morning at the northern section of Morse Boulevard between Old Mill Road and Stillwater Trace as part of a nationwide protest over cuts to wages, unions and social safety nets due to President Trump’s policies.
Nearly 1,000 protest actions were held from Alaska to Hawaii and every state in the United States.
The protests were organized by the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of labor unions in the nation, and more than 160 partner organizations, including Public Citizen, Indivisible, Democracy Forward, MoveOn and Patriotic Millionaires.
“Whether it’s teachers or nurses or construction workers, they’re all determined to stand up and fight back, because they’re experiencing the cuts, they’re experiencing the change in policies, they’re experiencing the attacks of this White House on their unions, and so they’re determined to make their voices heard and mobilize to fight forward regardless of what’s happening around us, no matter the obstacles,” said President of the AFL-CIO Liz Shuler.