Labor Day 2025: Workers Rise Up Against Billionaire Tyranny!

Labor Day 2025 is not just another holiday marking the end of summer or the start of the school year. It's a day born from the blood, sweat, and tears of workers who stood up against exploitation and demanded their rights. This year, Labor Day is a call to arms, a rallying cry for workers across the nation to stand together and fight back against the billionaire takeover.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is leading the charge with Solidarity Season, a nationwide wave of action where SEIU members and allies are demanding care, dignity, and power for working families. The theme is clear: Families First, Not Billionaires. We refuse to let billionaires slash care, scapegoat immigrants, raid public dollars, and divide working people for profit.

The demands are bold and unapologetic:

- Healthcare for all: Reverse the Medicaid cuts. Make healthcare affordable for all. Denying healthcare is denying humanity.

- Wages with dignity: Force corporations to raise pay, stop exploitation, and give workers back what they’ve earned.

- Fully funded public services: Invest in schools, housing, Social Security, and public health—not in privatization, war, or incarceration.

- Dignity and safety for every community: End immigrant scapegoating, ICE profiteering, and the targeting of Black, Brown, Indigenous, trans, and working-class people.

- Power at work: Guarantee every worker the right to organize, bargain, and shape their future.

- Tax the billionaires: Workers have paid enough. It’s time the ultra-rich gave back what they’ve taken.

Labor Day marks a major inflection point in workers’ ongoing actions to build a brighter future. SEIU members have been courageously raising their voices throughout the year, from a Medicaid Week of Action to push back on the Big Ugly Bill to a cross-country Justice Journey to protest immigrant detentions to the Families First National Day of Action with allies across the progressive movement in July.

The actions planned for Labor Day 2025 are nothing short of spectacular. From Washington, DC, to Seattle, workers are taking to the streets to demand their rights and hold billionaires accountable. In Durham, NC, SEIU members and allies will gather at Duke University to honor the workers who have built and sustained the campus and health system for more than a century. They will march to Amazon’s Durham site to connect the fight on campus to the fight against billionaire corporate power, including Jeff Bezos and other wealthy executives who profit while workers bear the burden.

In Minneapolis, SEIU Local 26 and a broad coalition will lead a rally and picket at Minneapolis–Saint Paul (MSP) Airport’s Terminal 1 free speech area. The action targets Delta Airlines and other corporations backing anti-worker and anti-democracy agendas, including support for Trump’s policies. Participants, airport service workers, rideshare drivers, and immigrant gig workers are demanding living wages, healthcare, dignity, and union rights.

In San Diego, SEIU locals are anchoring multiple coordinated events under the “Workers Over Billionaires” banner. From downtown to Chula Vista, La Jolla, Mira Mesa, Carlsbad, and Escondido, members and allies are turning out to demand investment in schools, healthcare, housing, and climate action over corporate wealth.

In Seattle, SEIU Local 1199NW, SEIU 775, MLK Labor, Public School Employees of Washington, and community allies will come together for an action in front of Palantir’s corporate offices. The event will include chalking sidewalks and putting up signs, with strong messaging about tech and corporate billionaires benefiting from tax cuts while workers are left behind.

This Labor Day, workers are sending a clear message: We will not be silenced. We will not be exploited. We will stand together and fight for our rights. Join the movement. Stand with workers. Demand justice. Because this is not just a holiday—it’s a revolution.