Roughly 45 Chicago Public Schools are taking civic engagement field trips across the city, for an international pro-labor day of protest, or May Day.

Organizers are calling on everyone in the city to embrace the national “no work, no school, no shopping” day of protest.

The Chicago Teachers Union pushed to have the day off from school so students and staff could participate. Instead, the CTU and the district reached a compromise. According to the union, CTU and CPS signed an agreement that includes the district providing buses for field trips so students and teachers can attend a 1 p.

May 1 is May Day, or International Workers Day, and Chicago is celebrating with a bike ride to May Day historical sites, a revival of the May Day Blast in Pilsen and more. There’s also the opening of the Garfield Ridge Farmers Market,

John Roberts also criticized Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for encouraging students to participate in protests.

A rally and march for May Day is expected to lead to some traffic and road closures in parts of Chicago Friday. The May Day Rally & March is set to begin at 1 p.m. in Chicago’s Union Park. The rally is scheduled to last for an hour before the group marches from Union Park to Daley Plaza,

Illinois quickly passed an eight-hour workday law, which went into effect on this date. Workers thought the vague language of the law could be enforced, and employers thought otherwise. Thousands of workers marched through Chicago to support the eight-hour workday,

Twenty years ago, Flor Ramirez lost her job for trying to stand with immigrant workers on May Day. Now, she brings her whole family to the march, hoping her children learn not to stay silent.