Throughout our history, the labor movement has had the vision to imagine a life for working people that didn’t exist yet, and the will to make it happen. When we fought for an eight-hour work day, they called it unrealistic. When we said we demand health and safety measures because our jobs shouldn’t kill us, they said the bosses would never give in. But our collective power made it happen.
Every organizing campaign, every strike is an act of radical hope. We bet our solidarity and our collective power that working people can live a better life—one where they don’t have to struggle to afford food, housing, and health care, where no one is targeted for who they are or where they were born, where we can raise children and retire in dignity.
That hope in the dark times, that vision for a better, fairer future—the American people believe in it too. Over 70% of Americans and nearly 9 in 10 young people support unions.
Workers built this country and we have the power to take it back. An economy, a government, and a country for the people, not the billionaires. In the streets and on the shop floor, in union halls and the halls of Congress, working people are rising up and fighting for freedom, fairness, and security.
This Labor Day, we’re going to show the billionaires and big corporations who we are and how we fight. We will stand together to speak up. Speak out. Demand better. And we WILL take our country back!