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Protesters hold signs during a “No Kings” demonstration in downtown Houston on Saturday, June 14, 2025.
“Workers over Billionaires” protests are scheduled to take place in the Houston area on Monday, which is Labor Day.
The planned pro-worker demonstrations are part of a nationwide effort called May Day Strong, which includes hundreds of planned pro-democracy protests.
“Billionaires are stealing from working families, destroying our democracy and building private armies to attack our towns and cities,” the May Day Strong website claims. “We are May Day Strong, working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover, not just through the ballot box or the court, but through building a bigger and stronger movement.”
One of the Houston protests is scheduled for 3-6 p.m. Monday at 8th Wonder Brewery, 2202 Dallas St., while a similar demonstration is planned for 3:30-6:30 p.m. Monday near the Houston International Promenade, 2300 Polk St., according to information posted online by organizers. They include the Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation, New Economy for Working Houston, Texas Organizing Project and Organized Power in Numbers.
“Time and time again, we have seen the Billionaires and ultra-rich profit and take advantage of our work,” the Houston-area organizers said in their online announcement. “We build and make our society function. It’s time that it works for us all.”
The organizers also said that peaceful protest is a core part of their mission and that weapons of any kind will not be tolerated.
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) also is involved.
“Workers built this country, and workers deserve an economy, a government and a country for the people, not the billionaires,” AFL-CIO organizers said in their announcement online. “In the streets and on the shop floor, in union halls and the halls of Congress, this Workers’ Labor Day we’re going to show the billionaires who we are and how we fight.”
Other “Workers Over Billionaires” events are planned in Conroe, Katy, Kingwood and elsewhere in Texas. The scheduled protests are the most recent in a series of similar demonstrations held across the country and in Houston.
In July, protestors in Houston participated in the national “Good Trouble Lives On” protests. In June, more than 60 “No Kings Day” rallies were held across Texas. Two months earlier, more than 1,000 people gathered at Houston City Hall for the nationwide “50501” demonstrations. Participants in each of those protests expressed opposition to President Donald Trump and his policies.