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‘Devastating’ New Jobs Report Shows Labor Market ‘Cracking’ Under Trump

Brad Reed

September 06, 2025: A federal jobs report released on Friday showed the U.S. economy added a mere 22,000 jobs in August in yet another signal of weakness in the U.S. labor market.

Economists had projected the economy would produce 75,000 jobs on the month, which means that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) numbers released on Friday were well below the consensus estimate.

What’s more, the total number of jobs created in July and June were once again revised downward, and the economy as a whole has added an average of fewer than 30,000 jobs over the last three months.

Heather Long, the chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, put the bad jobs report in stark terms.

“The labor market is going from frozen to cracking,” she said, and then pointed to net job losses in industries including mining, construction, and manufacturing that show significant stress in the blue-collar economy. In fact, the majority of job growth came from the healthcare industry over the last month.

“The U.S. job market is almost entirely dependent on healthcare,” she observed. “That’s not healthy for the economy.”

Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan, also said that the new numbers showed a continued deterioration in both the U.S. labor market and the economy as a whole. “I’m worried,” he said. “The economy was in a good place in late 2024. That’s no longer true. And the trajectory is, at a minimum, concerning. That’s millions of people’s lives, and millions of stories of pain.”

Wolfers also zeroed in on the fact that manufacturing employment has been contracting for several months, despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledges to lead a manufacturing revitalization.

“But the Administration has made dramatic policy shift to boost manufacturing, and it just ain’t working,” he said. “Manufacturing employment fell [by 12,000 jobs], and is down [78,000 jobs] over the year.”

Former BLS commissioner Erika McEntarfer, whom Trump fired last month after he baselessly accused her of concocting negative job numbers to harm him politically, argued on Bluesky that the new report’s downward revisions of previous monthly estimates are indicative of a labor market that is very quickly cooling.

“The larger-than-usual downward revision last month was in large part driven by a negative skew in the job growth distribution among late reporting firms,” she said. “That’s unusual, but it’s happened before when the pace of job growth slows rapidly. This print is more evidence that was the case.”

Mike Konczal, senior director of policy and research at the Economic Security Project and former member of President Joe Biden’s National Economic Council, argued the new jobs report demonstrates that “the theory of Trumponomics is failing.”

“The first theory of Trumponomics was that tariffs would build up manufacturing work and federal workforce cuts would free up workers for them,” he explained. “That’s failed. Manufacturing lost jobs almost as fast as the federal workforce (-12 vs. -15K).”

Konczal then showed how Trump’s tariffs have hurt his stated goal of bringing back well-paying jobs for blue-collar men, as industries that produce such jobs have also been harmed by his tariffs on foreign goods and materials.

He also pointed out that Trump advisers claimed that mass deportations of undocumented immigrants would create new job openings that native-born workers would rush in to fill. “But, you guessed it, that’s also failing,” he said. “Amidst the broader weakening, the native-born unemployment rate is at the highest levels since the pandemic.”

Elise Gould, the director of health policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, similarly noted that “there have… been sustained losses over recent months in manufacturing, construction, and mining,” in recent months, which she said was “an indication that Trump’s blue-collar renaissance is clearly not happening.”

Alex Jacquez, chief of policy and advocacy at the progressive advocacy organization Groundwork Collaborative, called the jobs report “devastating,” while laying the blame at the feet of Trump. “Trump’s promises to working families have fallen flat,” he said. “The unemployment rate is the highest in nearly four years, the economy has lost nearly 40,000 manufacturing jobs this year alone, and millions of workers are unable to find full-time employment. Families are getting fewer chances to secure the American dream in Trump’s economy.”

Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) reacted to the jobs report by issuing a scathing rebuke to Trump and his management of the economy. “Donald Trump inherited an economy built on years of steady job growth,” he said. “In just seven months, he’s managed to screw it up—just like he’s screwed up everything else in his life. Now, working families are getting squeezed from every direction: higher prices, Republicans’ Big Ugly Law ripping health care away from millions, and a job market that’s slowing down.”

(Courtesy: Common Dreams, a US non-profit news portal.)

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Jobless Claims Highest in 4 Years as Tariff-Driven Layoffs, Price Hikes Wreak Havoc on U.S. Workers

Tom Hall

Sep 13, 2025: More than 260,000 Americans filed initial unemployment claims last week, the highest level in four years, according to data released Thursday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This is a sign of the deepening social crisis confronting the U.S. working class, driven increasingly by the trade war measures of the Trump administration and the use of AI to slash jobs.

The mounting unemployment portends an eruption of class struggle under conditions where Trump is escalating his drive toward dictatorship. Seizing on the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the administration is accelerating political repression.

The new report comes just after the BLS massively revised downward employment figures for the 2024 fiscal year. It now says that 911,000 fewer jobs were created than previously estimated. Figures for August show only 22,000 jobs were added, while June was revised into negative territory. Manufacturing jobs overall are in the negative for the year.

The latest layoff figures underline the scope of the devastation. Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported a 39 percent increase in announced layoffs last month, to 85,979, with the steepest cuts in pharmaceuticals. Some of the more notable recent announcements include:

• 1,000 at grocery giant Kroger’s technology and digital team. One worker posted to thelayoff.com: “The big bosses, Yael the CIO and Rana the Senior HR Director, couldn’t even bother to show up live for the announcement. Nope, they dropped a pre-recorded video on everyone like it was a bad Zoom prank. “Hey team, you’re fired—cut! That’s a wrap!”
• Oil and gas producer ConocoPhillips is cutting up to one quarter of its global workforce, equal to around 3,200 jobs. “These layoffs aren’t going to end,” one worker wrote on thelayoff.com. “They say the end of 2027 but let’s face it. All of us will slowly be phased out up until 2030.” Another worker wrote: “There are very few oil and gas jobs out there as well as the same in other industries.… I am not a big backer of AI, OSDU, and AWS but it looks like those are here to stay”;
• Insurance company State Farm is rolling out voluntary buyouts;
• Tech firm Oracle is cutting 254 jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area;
• More than 200 layoffs have been announced at electric vehicle startup Rivian;
• 150 cuts at BlueCross BlueShield in Chattanooga, Tennessee; and
• 4,000 layoffs at Salesforce, whose CEO declared frankly: “I need less heads with AI.”

In addition, the takeover of Walgreens by private equity firm Sycamore Partners is set to break up the company into five separate entities, a move which will likely lead to massive layoffs.

Amid the rising cost-of-living crisis, Trump’s tariff measures are beginning to manifest in higher inflation figures. Tariffs, which are taxes paid by importers, function as a regressive sales tax because costs are eventually passed on to consumers. This process is now clearly underway.

CPI inflation was around 2.9 percent for August, the BLS reported Thursday. Among the basket of goods used to calculate the index, the highest increases were in coffee (21.7 percent) and raw beef steaks (16.6 percent). Home gas prices jumped 13.6 percent year-on-year, motor vehicle repair was up 15 percent, and furniture rose 9.5 percent.

For some time, inflation had fallen from its historic 9 percent peak in 2022, but it has now stopped declining and is beginning to rise again. Last month’s figures were the highest since January. Moody’s economist Mark Zandi told CNBC: “I think we should expect a further acceleration in inflation over the next 6 to 12 months.”

Trump’s claim—parroted by the union bureaucracy—that tariffs would benefit American workers and bring back jobs has been exposed as a lie. The opposite is taking place. Through mass layoffs and price increases generated by tariffs, American capitalism aims to make workers pay for the mounting economic crisis, the growth of public and private debt, the uncontrolled rise in share values, and the diversion of resources toward war.

For the ruling elite, the main significance of the numbers is to what extent they impact the likelihood of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve next week, ensuring continued access to cheap money to fuel speculative bubbles and unimaginable personal fortunes.

On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended trading above 46,000 for the first time ever. The day before Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison increased his wealth by $100 billion in a single day, surpassing Elon Musk as the world’s richest person.

Significantly, General Motors CEO Mary Barra sold 40 percent of her stock in the company, worth tens of millions of dollars.

For workers, however, the picture is disastrous. A majority of Americans are already living paycheck to paycheck, and a significant portion cannot afford the unexpected expense of even a few hundred dollars. Personal bankruptcies rose 11.8 percent between June of 2024 and June of 2025, according to Newsweek.

Officially, the unemployment rate remains at 4.3 percent. But this is a massive underestimation of the real toll. The labor force participation rate, a measure of those of working age either employed or actively looking for work, has been falling for the last two years from its post-lockdown high of 62.8 percent in August 2023 (a figure far below pre-pandemic levels, which had already declined to their lowest since the 1980s). This is a sign that millions are dropping out of the labor force, including those who have given up looking for jobs.

Youth unemployment stands at 10.8 percent, more than double the national figure.

The economic war on the working class finds its political reflection in preparations for civil war, with the deployment of troops to Washington, DC and soon to Chicago and dozens of other cities.

The aim is to suppress all opposition to policies which are already generating significant opposition. In particular, they are aimed at the working class, which is being thrust into struggle by the impossible cost of living and brutal working conditions. The death of Stellantis worker Ronald Adams Sr. five months ago was followed by a string of major industrial accidents, including explosions at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works near Pittsburgh and a fireworks factory in southern California, and the death of a food processing worker in a meat grinder.

Signs of opposition include strikes by defense workers at Boeing and GE Aerospace. Boeing, no doubt with the blessings of the White House, is moving to replace striking workers. The International Association of Machinists (IAM) bureaucracy, which earlier urged Trump to intervene, has said nothing about the move.

Trump’s response to the recent jobs figures has been to attack the BLS, falsely claiming it was rigging data to make him look bad. Last month he fired the head of the agency. His nominee for replacement is loyalist EJ Antoni, who has reportedly floated ending publication of the monthly job reports altogether.

At the same time, the jobs data are a sign of the deepening crisis in the U.S. economy. The dollar is down 10 percent since the start of the year and the gold price has nearly doubled since 2023. There are growing concerns about the U.S. Treasury market, as government debt, already the largest in history, continues to balloon.

Trump’s tariff policies, while aimed at finding new sources of revenue and attempting to address the balance of trade deficit, are wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy, and on the world economy of which the U.S. and every other country is a component part. Postal volumes into the U.S. have declined by 80 percent due to the reversal of de minimis tariff exemptions, as many companies suspend shipping to the U.S. Consumers are reporting hundreds of dollars in tariffs for relatively small purchases, such as computer equipment.

These developments are leading to explosive class struggles. “I’m worried we are repeating conditions right before World War Two. We are on the path toward an explosion,” one striking nurse in Michigan told the WSWS this week. “The whole working class needs to strike. We need to put the rich people in their place,” a striking Libbey Glass worker in Toledo, Ohio said.

The working class must become the center of the fight against dictatorship, which is impossible without a struggle against the capitalist system itself.

(Tom Hall is Political Committee member of the Socialist Equality Party, UK. Courtesy: World Socialist Web Site, the online publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International.)

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Trumponomics in Trouble

John Clarke

As he pursues his mission to ‘Make America Great Again,’ Donald Trump has embraced an approach that has come to be known as ‘America First.’ His administration has jettisoned a concept of U.S. world leadership that has held sway since the days immediately following the Second World War. Trump isn’t interested in the role of cornerstone of a global order but rather he seeks to use the waning but still formidable economic strength of the U.S. and its huge military superiority to obtain the greatest possible immediate benefits in matters of trade and geopolitical rivalry.

An MSNBC opinion article that was published in June attempted to come to terms with ‘Trumponomics’ and assess the economic strategy that the Trump administration is implementing. Pointing, with some justification, to the erratic and unpredictable conduct to which Trump is prone, the article nonetheless identified some of the key elements that are shaping this administration’s actions.

MSNBC notes that:

“So far this year, Trump has enacted tariffs on nearly every country on the planet; started major trade wars with China, Canada and Mexico; and launched an enormous deportation campaign with still-unfolding consequences for industries such as farming, construction and hospitality. The Republican megabill that includes most of his domestic agenda would slash taxes for the wealthy and cut benefits for the poor, while massively increasing the national debt.”

Trump’s political approaches are very much based on notions of a U.S. ‘greatness’ that has been undermined by hostile forces which must be defeated. Immigrants are to be rounded up and deported, liberal political rivals and meddling federal bureaucracies to be subdued and a regime of centralised executive power is to be established.

In matters of trade, the central proposition is that the U.S. has been cheated by both rivals and avowed allies alike. The remedy is an aggressive turn to protectionism and tariff measures that will tilt the balance of trade and force competitors to establish manufacturing facilities in the U.S. The restoration of unrivalled manufacturing dominance is a central element of Trumponomics and the broader America First strategy.

Raid on Hyundai factory

The economic dangers involved in Trump’s drive against migrant workers were highlighted by an immigration raid that was conducted last week on a major Hyundai facility in Georgia. According to National Public Radio, ‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, in a raid Thursday at a massive electric vehicle battery plant under construction in Ellabell, Ga., near Savannah. The plant is a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution.’

It appears that roughly 300 of those arrested were Koreans and the government of that country, an ally and major trading partner of the U.S., was taken by surprise and deeply shocked by the raid. South Korean President, Lee Jae Myung, stressed ‘that the rights and interests of South Korean nationals and the business operations of South Korean companies investing in the United States must not be infringed upon.’ Following negotiations, the Trump administration agreed to release the detained Koreans and a plane has been chartered to bring them home.

In assessing the significance of the raid, Steven Schrank, special agent in charge of homeland security investigations for Georgia and Alabama, declared that: ‘We are sending a clear and unequivocal message that those who exploit our workforce, undermine our economy and violate federal laws will be held accountable.’ He stressed, moreover, that the operation was the result of months of careful planning.

For his part, Trump came out clearly in support of the action that was taken by his immigration enforcers, stating that: ‘I would say that they were illegal aliens, and Ice was just doing its job.’ It appears that the investigation that led to the raid found that some of the detained workers ‘had expired visas or had entered on a visa waiver that prohibited them from working’ but the bigger question is the political choice that was made to conduct such a high-profile and large-scale operation at this facility.

A statement issued by Hyundai in March, noted that it was engaged in a ‘$12.6 billion investment in Georgia and the largest economic development project in the state’s history.’ There would be, moreover, ‘an additional $21 billion investment from 2025 to 2028 to drive U.S. manufacturing growth.’

Given the scale of Hyundai’s investments and the degree to which they conform to Trump’s avowed aim of having foreign rivals establish manufacturing facilities in the U.S., it seems quite remarkable that this carefully prepared and massive enforcement operation was undertaken. Certainly, a more discreet resolution of the matter was entirely possible and it seems that xenophobic zeal is overriding sound judgement, when it comes to Trump’s economic agenda.

The Hyundai raid, moreover, is only a particularly sharp expression of the degree to which the administration’s conduct is problematic from the standpoint of major capitalist interests. Workers without legal status have long been a major part of the U.S. workforce and a ruthless and repressive immigration system has worked to keep them as vulnerable as possible. Trump, however, threatens to take things to a level that cuts into the profits of some of the most exploitative employers.

In June, CNN Business quoted ‘Rebecca Shi, the CEO of American Business Immigration Coalition, a group representing employers with immigrants.’ She complained that recent ‘immigration enforcement raids on businesses nationwide are creating serious challenges for local economies, communities, and industries that depend on immigrant labor to operate and prosper.’

The concerns of Shi and the interests she speaks for are hardly surprising, given that undocumented ‘immigrants make up 4% to 5% of the total U.S. workforce, but 15% to 20% or more in industries such as crop production, food processing and construction, according to Goldman Sachs.’

Economic downturn

On 5 September, Al Jazeera reported that the ‘United States labour market has begun to stall as employers face economic uncertainty due to tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and an immigration crackdown that has softened the labour pool.’ The massive U.S. economy was only able to add 22,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%. ‘So far this year, employers have cut more than 892,000 jobs, the highest total since 2020.’

Responding to this news, Skanda Amarnath, executive director of Employ America and a former Federal Reserve economist, spoke of another ‘poor jobs report thanks to tariffs. With the benefit of revisions, it’s increasingly clear that tariffs are weighing on hiring and jobs. Manufacturing jobs are falling sharply, and so are other trade-sensitive sectors like mining and wholesale trade.’

It is clear that the Trumponomics component of the present U.S. administration’s America First approach is running into very major problems. The crude effort to expel the undocumented workers who play such a key role in the functioning of the U.S. economy is producing disruptive effects and economic shocks. The trade-war approach is generating global instability and a dangerous risk of economic slump and it is most certainly not bringing the economic benefits to the U.S. that Trump has predicted.

Having said this, however, it is important to stress that we are dealing with very much more than the failed approaches of a single presidential administration. Trump, after all, is responding to a decline in the hegemonic power of the U.S. and its reduced ability to maintain its leading role within the global order.

It must also be stressed that Trump returned to the White House on the basis of the failures of the Biden administration. That political regime was touted in terms of a restoration of responsible U.S. world leadership and, both domestically and internationally, it failed on its own terms. Biden was unable to save the decades-long role the U.S. has played and simply provided a warm-up act for Trump’s second term.

Now back in power, a more determined and focused Trump regime tries to offer its reactionary solutions to the travails of a declining United States. It is a very dangerous administration that needs to be challenged and defeated but the hopes and assumptions on which its bid to restore U.S. ‘greatness’ are based are proving to be extremely dubious. As a response to the decline of U.S. imperialism, the America First turn is going very badly.

(John Clarke became an organiser with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty when it was formed in 1990 and has been involved in mobilising poor communities under attack ever since. Courtesy: Counterfire, a British socialist organisation that also runs a website.)

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Trump’s Dictatorship and the American Oligarchy

Andre Damon

On Thursday, President Donald Trump held a public dinner with representatives from five of the six largest companies in the world—all multinational technology companies headquartered in America—pledging to expand their profits and accepting their praise and thanks.

Trump, on his best behavior, pledged to “make it a lot easier” for the assembled billionaires to “get your permits.” The oligarchs, in turn, profusely expressed their appreciation for Trump in “supporting our companies instead of fighting with them,” as Google co-founder Sergey Brin put it.

The executives thanked Trump on 30 separate occasions in the space of 15 minutes. They extolled his “incredible leadership” (Bill Gates, Microsoft) and repeatedly expressed that they were “grateful” (Brin and AMD CEO Lisa Su) for his “support.”

“Thank you for being such a pro-business, pro-innovation president. It’s a very refreshing change,” declared OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

“I think it’s going to set us up for a long period of leading the world, and that wouldn’t be happening without your leadership.”

If ever a scene embodied the Communist Manifesto’s maxim that “the executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie,” it was Thursday’s conclave of technology oligarchs at the White House. It demonstrated conclusively that Trump’s efforts to establish a dictatorship in the United States serve the interests of the financial oligarchy, and that the targets of this dictatorship are the workers whose labor creates the oligarchy’s wealth.

Among those present were:

• Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, the second-largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $3.6 trillion. Sam Altman of Microsoft proxy OpenAI was also present, along with former chairman and CEO Bill Gates (net worth $122 billion).
• Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, the third-largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $3.5 trillion.
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet (Google), the fourth-largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $2.8 trillion. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, with a net worth of $191 billion, was also present.
• David Limp, CEO of Blue Origin, attended on behalf of Jeff Bezos (net worth $256 billion) and his company Amazon, the fifth-largest corporation in the world, with a market capitalization of $2.4 trillion.
• Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (Facebook), the sixth-largest corporation in the world, with a market capitalization of $1.8 trillion. Zuckerberg is the third-wealthiest man in the world, with a net worth of $263 billion.

Inside the White House, a newly-gilded Rococo ballroom seated 30 men and women representing corporations with a market capitalization greater than the gross domestic product of every country in the world except the United States. Outside, the streets of the American capital were patrolled by armed and masked soldiers, gripping assault rifles and supported by armored vehicles mounted with gun turrets, amid Trump’s occupation of major American cities as part of his effort to establish a dictatorship.

The world inside and the world outside the White House collided in the words of Brin, who praised the “civil rights” work of the administration in Venezuela. He was referring to the murder of 11 people just days earlier in international waters by a flotilla of American gunboats, which marked a new high water mark in Trump’s use of illegal summary mass execution, with no legal precedent of any sort.

Having presided at Trump’s inauguration ceremony, in which he took office by capitalizing on the collapse of support for the incumbent Democratic Party, the technology oligarchs gathered once again to consecrate Trump’s self-coronation as king and dictator of America.

In exchange, Trump gave his full blessing for the initiative of the technology companies to integrate artificial intelligence—run on their servers, their consumer hardware, and their software—into all aspects of social and economic life, paving the way for an economic restructuring that is expected to destroy 800 million jobs by 2030.

The meeting was timed for what was, for the technology executives, a propitious occasion. Two days earlier, a U.S. district court judge ruled in favor of Google and Apple in a landmark antitrust case. Google, the fourth-largest company in the world, would be allowed to keep its monopoly on internet search, and Apple, the hardware monopolist and third-largest company in the world, would be allowed to keep receiving monopoly rent from Google for making it the default search engine on its phones and computers.

Trump congratulated Google and Apple on their “very good day,” condemning his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, as being “the one that prosecuted that lawsuit.”

The “very good day” for America’s technology monopolies was only the latest in a series of such “good days.” Since 2012, the so-called “magnificent seven” technology companies, five of which were represented at the dinner, have seen their share of the S&P 500 stock index rise from just over 7 percent in 2012 to 34 percent.

In 2012, their market capitalization stood at just $1.1 trillion. Today, their combined market capitalization has surged over 15-fold, to $19 trillion.

(Andre Damon is writer and editor for the World Socialist Web Site. Courtesy: World Socialist Web Site, the online publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International.)

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‘Insane Economics,’ Bernie Sanders Says of Musk’s Trillionaire Potential

Brett Wilkins

US Sen. Bernie Sanders responded Monday to reporting that the board of electric carmaker Tesla is proposing a compensation package that could elevate CEO Elon Musk—already the world’s richest person—from a mere multicentibillionaire to the first trillionaire in history.

Under the proposed package, which was first reported by The New York Times, Musk could add approximately $900 billion to his world-leading $435 billion fortune if Tesla’s stock market value is increased to $8.5 trillion from around $1.1 trillion today.

“Another $900 billion for Elon Musk, while 60% live paycheck to paycheck?” Sanders (I-Vt.) asked in a social media post. “Really?”

“This is not only grossly immoral. It is insane economics,” argued Sanders. “No society can survive when one man becomes a trillionaire while the working class struggles to survive. This cannot stand.”

Sanders—whose “Fighting Oligarchy” tour has drawn huge crowds from coast to coast—has been an outspoken critic of the policies and practices of both major parties under which the rich, and especially the ultrarich, have grown wealthier at the expense of working-class Americans.

“What you are seeing now is an oligarchy with enormous economic power and political power in both political parties,” Sanders said at a Saturday rally in Brooklyn for progressive Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. “What we are here tonight to say is, to hell with you. We are going to take you on!”

U.S. economic inequality has been exacerbated by the policies of the Trump administration and congressional Republicans. Although President Donald Trump campaigned on promises to “make America affordable again,” upon returning to office he invited Musk to help gut the federal government and has pursued a pro-billionaire agenda under which critical social programs are being sacrificed upon the altar of multitrillion-dollar tax breaks for corporations and oligarchs.

An analysis published last week by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office affirmed that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by Trump in July will increase the wealth of the richest 10% of U.S. households by $13,600 annually—largely due to tax cuts—while simultaneously taking about $1,200 annually from the poorest 10% of households, mainly due to cuts in programs including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Earlier this month, Americans turned out in cities and towns across the nation for more than 1,000 “Workers Over Billionaires” Labor Day rallies “to reclaim worker power against billionaires who hoard unprecedented wealth and power.”

[Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams. Courtesy: Common Dreams, a US non-profit newsportal.]