Salem residents will join national protests against the Trump administration planned for Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 2.
The theme of “Workers Over Billionaires” is meant to call attention to what organizers described as anti-worker and anti-union actions by President Donald Trump.
Those include cuts to the federal workforce and efforts this week to strip union protections from federal workers .
It will take place from 1-4 p.m. on the north end of the Oregon Capitol Mall, along Northeast Center Street near the intersection with Northeast Summer Street.
The protest is organized by Salem Region Indivisible, a group that came together earlier in the year and has evolved into the primary organizer of recent protests against the administration.
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