(COLORADO SPRINGS) — On Thursday, May 1, hundreds rallied outside Colorado Springs City Hall to mark May Day, or International Workers’ Day, and to protest President Donald Trump and others for slashing the federal workforce.
International Workers’ Day is to honor the workers who were attacked and murdered by police when protesting for the eight-hour workday in what became known as the 1886 Haymarket Massacre
The protests centered on opposing the President and billionaire supporters like Elon Musk, who has led the Department of Government Efficiency’s mass firings of the federal workforce. Members of various unions spoke on how labor can organize to fight back locally and nationally.
“Throughout the year. We’ll put on a few trainings or workshops for people to learn how to have a basic organizing conversation and how to build up to their organizing committee and then hopefully be able to hand them off to a staff union organizer who can take them the rest of the way towards getting a contract and dignity at work,” said Harry Mangles, Chair of the Workers Solidarity Project Colorado Springs.
Rallies were held across the country and in countries like Brazil.
