March and Rally in Williston

May 1st, 2025, 5pm to 7:30pm

The band stand at 28 Walnut St Williston, VT 05495

The Trump administration has launched a war on working people. Trump, Musk, and their fellow oligarchs are ripping up union contracts, denying workers rights to collective bargaining, laying off thousands, and slashing social programs. To get away with this all-out assault, they are trying to divide and conquer us, scapegoating migrants, people of color, trans people, and Palestine solidarity activists. But the labor movement will unite, resist the Trump administration, and defend everyone under attack. We know that an injury to one is an injury to all!

This May Day we will rally and march in Williston, Vermont in solidarity with Migrant Justice’s day-long picket at Hannaford Supermarkets. They are demanding that Hannaford join Milk with Dignity and pay farm workers fair wages and benefits. We will assemble, march past the ICE Data facility, which centralizes and distributes information to immigration authorities and law enforcement throughout the country to arrest and deport migrants, and end with a rally at Hannaford with Migrant Justice.

We call on all unions, faith groups, and organizations to endorse and mobilize for May Day in Williston. We do so in solidarity with all other May Day actions throughout the state from Montpelier to every other town and city. Now more than ever we must revive the tradition of solidarity forged on the first May Day in 1886 that united all workers–migrants and citizens–in a strike for an 8-hour workday. Today, as the rights and living standards of all workers and oppressed groups hang in the balance, we must unite and fight for our collective liberation. Join us!

Endorsers: AFSCME Local 1674, AFSCME Local 3977, AFT VT, Ben & Jerry’s Scoopers United, Black Cap Workers United, Cooperation Vermont, Free Her VT, Green Mountain Democratic Socialists of America, Green Mountain Labor Council, Green Mountain IWW, Gakru United, Jewish Voice for Peace VT-NH, MetroRock United, Migrant Justice, Old North End Mutual Aid, Old North End Free Fridge, PPNNE United, Rights and Democracy, SEIU CIR, Spectrum Workers Union, Tempest Collective, UAW 2322, UVM Staff United, UVM United Academics, UVM Graduate Students Union, UVM Student Workers’ Union, UVM Students for Justice in Palestine, UVM Abolitionists, UVM Progressives, UVM YDSA, UVM MC SSU, Vermont 50501, VT Party for Socialism and LIberation, Vermont Progressive Party, Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, Vermont Workers Center, 350VT