We Have Much to Celebrate this Labor Day, and Much More Work to Do!
Join PDA’s Labor and Economics Issue Organizing Team

The first Labor Day parade  was held on September 5, 1882, in New York City. Today, thousands of towns from Maine to California and Florida to Alaska and Hawai’i will host parades, barbecues, fireworks, and festivals honoring Labor Day and working people everywhere.

The labor movement, however, is not just celebrations. Past victories (and setbacks) have been fraught with unrest, violence, and bloodshed as people stood up for their rights to human dignity, safe working conditions, and non-exploitive employment.

In the summer of 2023, workers across America stood up and said, “Enough is enough, let’s stand together and make demands collectively.” Great gains were made by the United Auto Workers, Writers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, National Nurses United, and restaurant and hospitality workers.

PDA continues to play a significant role in supporting the current surge of union activism. Our activists are predominantly poor, working- and middle-class Americans—who, like the majority of Americans today, are not union members. But we unwaveringly support the labor movement and the continuing surge of labor actions.

On this Labor Day of 2024, with stark and difficult choices facing us in the November election, we at PDA recommit ourselves and our organizational resources to our brothers and sisters, loudly proclaiming our support for organized labor, and calling for all U.S. residents to stand with unionized workers.

Our goal is to elevate the practice of supporting the union movement to the same level as other defining positions of the progressive movement.

Want to join PDA’s campaign to support and elevate the re-energized U.S. Labor Movement?

• Join PDA’s Labor and Economics Issue Organizing Team today.
• Join our nationwide network of phonebankers and spread the word as part of our Click Brigade.
• Donate generously to sustain and expand our efforts, and make it monthly if you can.

We’re all in this together. Happy Labor Day!

In solidarity,

The PDA National Team