May Day News

Activist Amina Tyler is led away by riot police during a May Day march marking International Workers' Day, or Labour Day, at the Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis May 1, 2013.

A Maypole wrapped with ribbons has been a festive tradition for hundreds of years in the northern hemisphere on the first of May, especially in many communities in England.

Shoppers from the Chinese mainland flock to stores in Hong Kong for bargains. Mainland consumers are increasingly traveling to the special administrative region as the yuan continues to appreciate.

Teens from an East Palo Alto youth action group wait to start the May 1 rally in Mountain View.

Dominic Ibarra sits on the shoulders of his grandfather Luis Ibarra during an immigration rally on May Day in the Mission District in San Francisco, California May 1, 2013.

Boniface Mwangi's hands trembled as he typed a Twitter post about his intention to heckle Kenya's top union leader at a rally attended by Kenya's new president.

On this May 1, a day of international working class solidarity, we in the Philippine labor and progressive movement, stand with the Venezuelan working class and the people of Venezuela in their struggle to elect the government of their choice to pursue their demands and goals for Socialism of the XXI century.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is joined by Congressman Steven Horsford, left, and Congresswoman Dina Titus as he speaks during a May Day rally for comprehensive immigration reform in downtown Las Vegas Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

In this May 1, 2013 photo, members of the opposition hold Venezuelan flags during a May Day march in Caracas, Venezuela.

Gretna scored two goals in a six-minute span in the first half as the Dragons defeated Gering 2-0 in the Class B girls state soccer quarterfinals on Friday at Creighton's Morrison Stadium.

Croatia Airlines has fired all 42 cabin crew members who took sick leave over the May Day public holiday in protest of the proposed working conditions outlined in the new collective agreement.

A relative of a missing Bangladeshi garment worker reacts as she gathers at a graveyard for victims of the garment factory collapse in Dhaka on May 1, 2013.

The festivities started at 9am last Wednesday, May 1, with the school's oldest boy Alex Sukosd, 11, dressed in beech leaves as the Jack in the Green.

Despite seeing their wages rise 53 percent in the past year, Pattaya-area construction workers marked Labor Day 2013 with continued grumbles about low pay.

In this photo taken April 30, 2013, Jose Pastano, 71, speaks during an interview at his house in Caracas, Venezuela.

MAY 1, 2013 - With hundreds of cheering onlookers on the steps of the Oregon Capitol, Gov.

Juggalos, those ever-popular Internet punching bags, may be responsible for an odd burglary at a South Park senior-living facility that officers were unable to respond to thanks to the May Day goings-on elsewhere.

The annual May Day celebrations at the Hugh Joicey First School in Ford have taken place throughout the last three decades.

Dan Sandini at Daylight Disinfectant recently posted video from the 'May Day' protests in Portland, Oregon, and one of them alarmingly shows a group of young individuals dancing around a golden calf.

The flow of tourists in Crimea from April 30 to May 6, 2013 grew by 24% compared to the same period last year, Crimean resorts and tourism minister Oleksandr Liyev said on Tuesday.