Happy Labor Day 2025!

Today, our team at NPI honors and thanks the millions of working people over the course of American and Canadian history whose collective struggle for better pay and working conditions have lifted up families and communities all over the world.

Labor Day, established in the late nineteenth century, was created by our union movement. It’s a day to recognize the immense contributions and sacrifices of North American workers — especially in dark and troubling times when workers’ rights are under assault from an autocratic, fascist regime that many blue collar households voted to put into power based on false promises and empty rhetoric.

“Billionaires, greedy corporate CEOs and anti-worker politicians can throw everything they have at us, but America’s unions aren’t going anywhere,” said AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. “Nothing is more powerful than worker power and our solidarity.”

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“Celebrating America’s workers also means fighting for policies that open opportunities,” said U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene, D‑WA-01. “It’s how we build more pathways to the middle class and ensure everyone benefits from a strong economy, not just the wealthiest few. House Democrats are proud to have always stood with organized labor and workers, defending the rights of everyone to organize and bargain for better pay, safe working conditions, affordable health care, and a secure retirement.”

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/09/happy-labor-day-2025.html