Together, let’s stand for labor solidarity, advocacy, and union members’ ongoing fights for improved working conditions, fair pay, and workers' rights.
Join fellow union members around New Jersey to celebrate May Day, a significant date for the labor movement in the United States and throughout the world. Observed on May 1 each year, May Day commemorates the fight for the eight-hour workday, particularly remembering the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, where workers striking for shorter hours faced violent resistance.
Local associations are encouraged to show solidarity on May 1 by wearing whatever coordinated attire they choose—local shirts, a specific color, or anything else that represents unity within your local.
Spread the Word
10-Minute Meeting
Consider hosting a 10-minute meeting with your members to spread the word on what May Day means to labor unions throughout the state and country.
Upcoming May Day Events
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Showing Our Solidarity
Throughout the state and country, labor unions are proudly declaring their solidarity. Check out all the ways that they are letting everyone know just how powerful the labor movement continues to be.
“We know what we are up against. The consolidation of power is happening quickly. We know that the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the few has been a steady march for decades. That has all of us together pushing, demanding, cajoling that this country live up to the poetry of the Constitution and to live up to ‘We the people.’”
-- Becky Pringle, President of the National Education Association.
NEA May Day Toolkit
On May 1, 2026, educators will join workers, parents, students, and community members to rise up for dignity, justice, and public investment in our lives, not in billionaires' profit margins. This toolkit provides guidance to help you join the May Day Strong National Day of Action and make a bold impact for our schools and communities.
Standing Up for What’s Right
NJEA members are no strangers to standing up for their rights. Here are some highlights of our own labor story.
NJEA is proud to partner with labor unions and organizations throughout the state and nation. Coalition partners include:
- AAUP-BHSNJ
- AAPI New Jersey
- ACLU New Jersey
- AFGE (American Federation of Government Employees)
- AFL-CIO New Jersey
- American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
- Alliance for Immigrant Justice
- Amazon Labor Union (ALU)
- American Association of University Professors (AAUP-AFT)
- American Federation of Labor- Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
- American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
- American Federation of Teachers - New Jersey (AFT-NJ)
- Climate Revolution Action Network
- Communications Workers of America (CWA)
- Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1031
- Emgage Action
- Empower NJ
- Essex-West Hudson Labor Council, AFL-CIO
- Faith New Jersey
- FMBA (New Jersey Fire and Mutual Benevolent Association)
- Food and Water Watch
- For The Many
- HPAE
- International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)
- International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), Local 1233
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Ironbound Community Corporation
- International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE Local 68)
- IUPAT DC 21 (Painters and Allied Trades)
- Laborers International Union of North American (LIUNA)
- Make The Road New Jersey
- Minkwon Center for Community Action
- NAACP Newark
- National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA)
- National Education Association (NEA)
- New Jersey Citizen Action
- New Jersey Education Association (NJEA)
- New Jersey Policy Perspective
- NJ-Working Families Party
- People’s Organization for Progress (POP)
- Project Ninja
- Rutgers AAUP-AFT
- Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union
- Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU Local 108, UFCW, AFL-CIO)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU 1199)
- Service Employees International Union 32BJ (SEIU 32BJ)
- Service Employees International Union Committee of Interns and Residents (SEIU CIR)
- Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Union (SMART)
- The Martin Luther King People’s Convention for Justice and Resistance
- Planning Committee
- United Auto Workers (UAW)
- United Farm Workers (UFW) Foundation
- United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)
- United States Student Association (USSA)
- United Steelworkers of America (USW)
- UNITE HERE
- URA Local 1766 Union of Rutgers Administrators
- Wind of the Spirit Immigrant Resource Center