More than a thousand demonstrations were held across the United States Monday for Labor Day, as protesters came out against what the AFL-CIO called a “government by, and for, the CEOs and billionaires.” The protests came after President Trump stripped nearly a half a million federal workers of their union protections in August.

On New York’s Long Island, workers, community organizers and climate activists marched through the streets of the Hamptons to expose billionaire donors who are bankrolling the mayoral campaigns of former Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Eric Adams.

Meanwhile, in Chicago, labor leaders joined Mayor Brandon Johnson to denounce Trump’s threats to blanket Chicago with National Guard troops and federal immigration agents. Stacy Davis Gates is president of the Chicago Teachers Union.

Stacy Davis Gates: “In Chicago, right now we are reconstructing school libraries so we can teach the truth and media literacy. In Chicago, we are reopening mental health clinics, abolishing subminimum wage, making sure that workers get paid time off. We are in a reconstruction with a Black mayor whose family escaped Sallis, Mississippi, and imagined his leadership. We’re doing it with an organizer, not a billionaire. We are a government of the people, for the people, not a government of billionaires, for billionaires.”