Labor group holds first Labor Day parade in Boston: ‘Workers are fed up with billionaires’

Union members rallied in Boston Monday during a Labor Day parade hosted by the Greater Boston Labor Council Organizers cast the event as a historic display of worker solidarity that replaced the city s customary Labor Day breakfast at the Park Plaza GBLC President Darlene Lombos reported the parade was a announcement Workers are fed up with billionaires who hijack our democracy while pushing brutal cuts to the very programs that create jobs and keep our communities strong everything from infrastructure funding to instruction and vitality care Lombos disclosed in a message Striking Republic Services workers march during the Greater Boston Labor Council s Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Parade Libby O Neill Boston Herald Political figures from across Massachusetts joined the event including U S Sens Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey U S Rep Ayanna Pressley Gov Maura Healey Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Gov Maura Healey addresses thousands of marchers during the Greater Boston Labor Council s Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Parade Libby O Neill Boston Herald The march started on Boston Common near the State House and then continued to the first community school in the country on School Street the BlackRock corporate offices on State Street Faneuil Hall on Congress Street a site run by SEIU Local BJ on Sudbury Street the JFK Federal Building on Sudbury Street and Boston City Hall Plaza The march in Boston coincided with a number of Labor Day-related events happening across the country including a rally in front of Trump Tower in New York Carter Chamberlain of Burlington wears a large display of American flags for the Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Parade Libby O Neill Boston Herald