Labor union advocates have been rallying on May Day for more than 130 years, but this year’s demonstration took on more meaning.

Activists gathered last Saturday in Ybor City’s Centennial Park for an International Worker’s Day protest organized, in part, by the West Central Florida Labor Council. Union supporters were joined by those protesting the Trump administration’s policies on labor, immigration and more.

Kim Smith, a union coordinator representing electrical workers for IBEW Local 824 in Tampa, told the crowd a fight for unions is a fight for dignity.

“If you can unionize, unionize because it’s the only power we have,” Smith said. “The collective bargaining rights have been fought for hundreds of years by people like us.”

Mia Rawls, a federal union member, spoke out against Trump’s treatment of federal workers.

“Federal government employment is in a crisis of political calamity, hostility and threat of privatization,” Rawls told the crowd. “Corrupt corporate fascists are hijacking our jobs and entire federal agencies.”

The protest—which departed the park and took over parts of 7th Avenue en route to José Martí Park—was part of several recent anti-Trump May Day events.

League of Women Voters of the St. Petersburg Area held a May Day rally on two I-275 overpasses during rush hour last week. Students at University of South Florida used May Day to protest the university working with ICE.