May Day, Lifting Up Essential Workers
Statewide Events Honor Essential Worker
Contributions and Celebrate Policy Gains
Albuquerque ⎻⎻ On Sunday, May 1, "International Workers' Day", El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos and Somos un Pueblo Unido, New Mexico based immigrants’ rights and workers’ justice organizations, held a series of six actions throughout the state to highlight the contributions of New Mexico's low-wage workers and to celebrate their recent policy victories -- including paid sick days, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds and millions in economic relief.