BOSTON (WHDH) - Essential workers took to the streets across the nation Friday to fight for safer conditions.
The thundering rally filled Summer Street starting at the post office and continuing by Boston’s Convention and Exhibition Center, which has been converted into a field hospital to treat COVID-19 patients.
Hundreds of participants showed up to show their support for the city’s essential workers on the frontline of the pandemic.
The Metro Boston Postal Workers union was one of many who stood by these workers.
“Essential workers have answered the call,” Scott Hoffman, president of the APWU 100 said. “It would be nice to see the reward of hazard pay but we’re still on the job getting it done.”
Unions from all over the area joined in to show their support for all the people who put the hospital together and who keep it running on International Workers Day.
Those who participated in the event donated personal protective equipment to the staff as well.
“Wherever they’re striking today it is honoring the legacy of all the workers in the past and present we’ve been fighting for dignity and respect on the job and in this time. Especially during COVID-19, we are standing in solidarity with all workers, “Greater Boston Labor Councilor Darlene Lombos said.
Friday’s rally was just one of several held across the nation.
Employees at several supermarkets and Amazon walked off the job or called in sick Friday to demand safer conditions.
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