While May Day 2028 is still years away, there’s a lot to do to prepare for a mass mobilization. In late July, the Massachusetts Educators for May 1, 2028 organizing committee clarified our long-term strategy and intermediate actions, benchmarks, and goals. While ambitious, we believe our strategy is also deliberate and achievable:

For the 2025-2026 school year, we are focusing on our internal organizing and outreach, specifically connecting with every local union and supporting local actions for May Day 2026. Additional goals include connecting with supportive legislators in the state house and with family and community groups.

Beyond that, we intend to spend the 2026-2027 school year designing a democratically-developed platform of demands, and the 2027-2028 school year on direct mobilization preparation through local-level endorsements.

Our strategic focus for August and September is to create a contact list for all 428 local educator unions in Massachusetts. Once we have that list, hopefully by the end of September, we will begin our targeted outreach to locals.

We are also turning out to various local actions on Labor Day (see the next section to find the one nearest you!) and flyering for our group. Click here to order (free!) flyers or other literature to distribute in your community or local union.

May Day Strong is a coalition of over 200 partnering organizations, dedicated to May Day 2028 as a national day of action in support of our students, schools, and communities. Between now and then, they are supporting a series of actions on Labor Days and May Days all over the country.

The theme for this Labor Day’s actions is “Workers Over Billionaires,” and hundreds of local actions are already set up! See a full list here.

Here are the rallies and marches currently planned for Massachusetts:

Bring friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family to your local event! If you post pictures, use May Day’s Strong hashtag #WorkersDeserve and tag us @maeducatorsfor5128!

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The Organizing Committee builds out our communication structures, increases rank-and-file membership engagement, coordinates legislative advocacy, and so much more.

We meet virtually for 30 minutes per month. Our next meeting is Thursday, August 21st at 7pm.

All are welcome to join the Organizing Committee! Use the button below to sign up. Meeting links are emailed out the week of each meeting.

I was so lucky this summer to go to union conferences and conventions across the country. Every conversation I had reinforced for me that the energy for large-scale collective action is out there. I wish you a smooth and joyous start to the school year, and I hope to see you at a Labor Day rally!

In solidarity,

Megan

P.S. My inspirational Broadway song of the month is “My Shot” from Hamilton, specifically Alexander’s line, “Scratch that, this is not a moment, it’s the movement.” That can be us, too!