Protesters are planning several Workers Over Billionaires demonstrations throughout San Diego County Monday as part of a nationwide Labor Day effort organized by labor unions and other groups.

Seven events scheduled locally Monday will take place at the County Administration Center in downtown San Diego, La Jolla, Chula Vista, Mira Mesa, Carlsbad, Rancho Bernardo and Escondido City Hall. The Service Employees International Union and the San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council are among the local event organizers.

“Across San Diego County, SEIU locals are anchoring multiple coordinated events, under the Workers Over Billionaires banner,” the SEIU said in a statement. “From downtown to Chula Vista, La Jolla, Mira Mesa, Carlsbad and Escondido, members and allies are turning out to demand investment in schools, health care, housing, and climate action over corporate wealth. These actions highlight SEIU’s reach across diverse communities and show that working people: caregivers, educators, service and city workers are united in holding billionaires accountable and fighting for shared prosperity.”

In San Diego County, the main event will take place at 9 a.m. at San Diego’s Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway.

Additional rallies will be held in:

  • Carlsbad, Carlsbad Boulevard and Pine Avenue, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
  • Chula Vista, Birch Road and Millenia Avenue, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
  • Escondido City Hall, 201 N. Broadway, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m
  • La Jolla, Pearl Street and Girard Avenue, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
  • Mira Mesa, Mira Mesa Boulevard and Westview Pkwy., 10 a.m. to noon
  • Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Bernardo Road and Bernardo Center Drive. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

A statement on the Mobilize Us website said billionaires “continue to wage a cruel war on working people, with their cronies in the administration, ICE and law enforcement backing up their attacks.”

Some of the demonstrations are also planned under the banner Which Side Are You On?, which gets its name a 1931 song by labor activist Florence Reece that was used to delineate between United Mine Workers and their supporters in Harlan County, Kentucky, and the mine owners and their “thugs.”

Organizers said hundreds of San Diegans will take to the streets to again ask the same question as unions and workers face an “unprecedented assault” by President Donald Trump and his administration.

“There is no neutral ground in this fight,” said Brigette Browning, president of the San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council, AFL-CIO. “Just like the 1930s coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky, we are forced to choose: Either you stand with the working class or you enable the billionaires and politicians who are gutting our democracy and hoarding the wealth workers create.”

The groups allege the recently passed Big Beautiful Bill guts health care, schools, welfare and housing while lining the pockets of capitalists and supporting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement with $100 billion.

“While Trump and his billionaires further rig the system, we want every San Diegan, every worker to know that they have a right to organize with their coworkers to form a union,” said Crystal Irving, president of Service Employees International Union, “and that it’s better in a union because you have the collective power to shape your workplace and your community. Unions are a fundamental piece of democracy and on this Labor Day, we’re going to spread that knowledge loud and proud.”

Trump has tried to change the messaging about his bill to emphasize how he says it will help Americans.

“Last month, in a landmark achievement, I also proudly signed the largest working-class tax cuts in American history,” Trump said last week. “So the bill that — I’m not going to use the term ‘great, big, beautiful’ — that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s all about. It’s a massive tax cut for the middle class.”

Christian Ramirez, political director and statewide vice president for SEIU-WW said, “Immigrant workers are essential, yet the billionaires treat them as expendable.

“Immigrant workers and their families that keep our society moving with their labor are terrorized by federal agents and exploited by bosses. This is the face of tyranny: scapegoating the vulnerable while relying on their labor. Our response is collective power. This Labor Day, we stand together — as workers, immigrants and citizens alike, as one movement for dignity.”