Thousands of people, including unionists and immigration rights advocates, are expected to gather in downtown Los Angeles and Boyle Heights on Thursday in March of May.
Members and other groups will meet at 9am near Olympic Boulevard and Figueroa Streets in downtown Los Angeles. Speakers and music performances are planned before the group leaves the east of Olympic Boulevard and Los Angeles Avenue north of the city, and ends in the Metropolitan Detention Center area.
Later Thursday, the May Day Rally at Boyle Heights will begin at Mariachi Plaza at about 4:30pm. The march is scheduled to begin in about an hour, and will also be over at the Metropolitan Detention Center on Alameda Street.
Another gathering and marching is planned at 4:30pm at MacArthur Park, sponsored by the Community Self-Defense Coalition, which includes dozens of community organizations.
The march comes two days after thousands of impressive Los Angeles County workers represented by SEIU Local 721 held a massive protest moving through downtown towns. The SEIU strike began on Monday night and ended on Wednesday night.
In addition to May Day, thousands of healthcare, research and technology workers at the University of California will be holding a one-day strike at UC facilities across the state. Their union, a university expert and technical workers, says the action is in response to the system-wide employment freeze imposed by the UC in March. UPTE is engaged in contract consultations with the university, and the union held a three-day statewide strike in February.
International Workers’ Day is recognized in many countries around the world, and its origins date back to the 1880s, initially supporting the establishment of an eight-hour working day. In the United States, the date of May 1 was chosen to commemorate the date that began on the date of 1886 and ended in the Haymarket incident on May 4, 1886.
Eleven people have been killed and nearly 200 others have been injured.
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