The 2024 Workers Day is convened under the theme: “Commemorating May Day on the 30th anniversary of democracy amid worsening unemployment, inequality, and poverty.” In 1994, the first democratic elections ushered a liberal democratic dispensation. For many workers who committed their lives to abolishing the apartheid regime, 1994 was to transform their lives politically and socio-economically. Phemelo and SAFTU National spokesperson Trevor Shaku about ways to deal with this crisis.