Workers and unionists with red flags and banners attend the May Day Rally in Tokyo s Yoyogi Park on May 1, 1969. Police estimated the crowd at 220,000. Credit: AP Photo/IM Sign up for the Concord ...

Friday will mark the first day of May, and workers around the world will be observing the holiday known as “May Day.” Those observances will also occur in Chicago, with some students taking field ...

May is here, bringing with it more school holidays and bank holidays to look forward to. But before the second of the long weekends at the end of the month, we get May Day — which always falls on the ...

The movement, which began in Chicago in 1886, has grown to be a worldwide day of demonstrations calling for higher wages and better working conditions.

Protests are planned across the world on Friday in honor of International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, including in the Pacific Northwest. Organizers have planned demonstrations in Portland, ...

It may have escaped your attention: Today, May 1, is International Tuba Day. Distinguished as the largest of all brass instruments that delivers the lowest, mellowest tone, the tuba nonetheless often ...