WILMINGTON, Calif. – Thousands of union workers marched in solidarity through the streets of Wilmington for the 40th Annual Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor Labor Coalition Solidarity Parade and Picnic Rally.

“This is a tremendous thing for not only the community here. But for us, as longshoreman and retired longshoreman to see the power and the passion,” retired longshoreman, Norman Tuck said.

Tuck is a retired longshoreman and one of the first people who marched in the parade 40 years ago where he said about seven trade unions came together to fight for worker’s rights. He said, it’s just as important now to have more than 40 unions and labor organizations come together.

“Attacks on labor are relentless…We need to stay in unity and our motto is an injury to one is an injury to all and when we say all we mean every trade union that is around us today and every person who lives in this community,” Tuck said.

Many marchers like Tuck, come from long family lines of unionized port workers and other unionized trades, which is why labor groups make a point to share the impact these workers continue to make in the community and the nation’s economy.

“It’s important for us to once again to continue the fight and we’re going to show the rest of this country today that we stick together and we fight together in solidarity amongst the workers in this country still stands,” Larry Barragan of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Labor Coalition, said.

Tuck said this day is about honoring labor workers that take pride in their trade in the community.

“It gives me a joyous heart because this is our community. I live in San Pedro. But Wilmington and San Pedro are bound together by longshoremen that built these two communities,” Tuck said.

The parade led marchers through a one-mile route that ended in celebration at Banning Park in Wilmington, where Tuck and other union workers spent their day together in solidarity.