Pictured: Dora, an SEIU 775 caregiver rallying at May Day in Seattle. Photo credit: Nick Wagner/The Seattle Times
More than 1,000 people filled Cal Anderson Park in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and marched through downtown for Thursday afternoon’s May Day rally to support organized labor and workers rights and to protest the Trump administration.
Throughout the U.S., May Day rallies were filled with people protesting the Trump administration’s policies on workers’ rights, immigration and more. Organizers of marches in many cities said they were focused this year on protesting the administration’s targeting of immigrants, federal workers and diversity programs.
The SEIU union hoisted a 20-foot puppet of a girl named Luz — or “Light” in Spanish — who represents the plight of the immigrant worker, said union member Dorcas Berry.
The union was there to “talk about low wages and also to support that we don’t want the immigrants taken away,” Berry said. “We all love America. We don’t want it to be taken cheap.”