page_title: Solidarity Day march
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: Solidarity Day march / March
context_page_description: The Solidarity Day marches were a pair of large political rallies in support of organized labor that took place in Washington, D.C. on September 19, 1981 and August 31, 1991. Approximately 250,000-500,000 people took part in each march.
context_section_description: The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Day march in Washington, D.C., in September 1981, came a few weeks into the PATCO strike, and drew 260,000 to half a million union people. The solidarity march was even bigger than the great 1968 march. In other ways the march was a new experience in post-war Washington. Because, though many groups and parties supported the demonstration, it was overwhelmingly a demonstration of organized labor. It was the first major demonstration to have been organized for decades by the AFL-CIO.
  The March helped the Metrorail system set an estimated single day record of 400,000 trips, in part because the Unions paid to keep metro free all morning. The estimate was identical to the one reported, also as a single day record, for the 4/29/1980 Washington for Jesus march. The record would last until the day of the 1984 Fourth of July Beach Boys concert on the Mall.
caption: UAW members at protest
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