Most Labor Days, the Greater Boston Labor Council holds a big breakfast and anybody who’s anybody attends – we are a union town after all. But not this year. With a regime that has declared war on the union movement across the country and that is gearing up for a possible invasion of Boston, labor leader instead organized Boston’s first Labor Day parade.
Hundreds upon hundreds of workers and allies marched this morning from the Common to City Hall Plaza, where leaders of several unions declared they’re ready to take on the Trumps, the Musks, the Bezoses and fight for not just their fellow union members but the communities they live and work in.
“Workers over billionaires!” they insisted. But also Boston over the guy Rep. Ayanna Pressley called a fascist and Sen. Ed Markey called the scab-in-chief. Speakers reminded a packed City Hall Plaza that Boston was home to Sam Adams, Paul Revere and John Hancock, abolitionists and suffragettes, Mel King and Melnea Cass, the place where the first same-sex couples got married and where Martin Luther King met Coretta Scott King…