San Francisco Labor Day 2025

The San Francisco Labor Council, which organized the holiday event, made the choice to gather in a real working class neighborhood (the Mission at 16th Street), offer a short march route to Dolores Park, and enjoy the fortunately sunny day. 

The result left an impression of slightly chaotic, but determined and happy, crowds celebrating each other and denouncing everything the Trump regime stands for.

This was a very urban little march of several thousand determined people, in a fine coalition style.

 

Not for this year, the distinct contingents from particular locals or even the dockworker marching band.

Instead, we're in this together. Close together.

We know what matters ...

...and what's true.

We know who we blame.

We even, broadly, know what we want ...

The San Francisco Chronicle published a short report which caught the flavor of the event:

Bayview resident Diana Oertel said she is not typically active on labor issues, but “it was time to get out again.” She said she didn’t know whether the demonstrations against the Trump administration were having much of an impact.

“You’d have to be cruising at 20,000 feet to know that,” she said. “All we can do is keep chipping away. We don’t work for the president. He works for us.”