The crowd cheers striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers as they pass the reviewing stand at Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)
The Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade wound through Downtown Monday. We at the Pittsburgh Union Progress, wearing our matching PUP T-shirts, marched with our fellow Pittsburgh news strikers as well as our union leaders and other supporters, some of whom flew or drove from afar to be with us. It was a beautiful day. We took a lot of photos.
More than 30 striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette news workers and supporters, many of them wearing matching Pittsburgh Union Progress T-shirts, gather on Crawford Street before the start of the Pittsburgh Labor Day parade through Downtown on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Abigail Hakas)Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro laughs after getting a kiss from Linus, a miniature dachshund owned by Nikolaus Schuetz, right, of the South Side, during Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)IBEW Local 5 members march down the Boulevard of the Allies during Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday, Sep. 2, 2024. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, center, greets a supporter on Grant Street during Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)PUP contributor Abigail Hakas, left, and former PUP intern Delaney Parks join striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette news workers for Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Karen Carlin/Pittsburgh Union Progress)Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey makes his way along Grant Street during the city’s annual Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)The NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss lends his voice to the PG news strikers by leading chants as they make their way through Downtown in the Pittsburgh Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Bob Batz Jr./Pittsburgh Union Progress)State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, candidate for state auditor general, greets supporters on Grant Street during Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)Jen Kundrach, second from left, a designer on strike against the PG, cheers as she marches with other members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh during the Pittsburgh Labor Day parade on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. (Emily Matthews/Pittsburgh Union Progress)Myrtle Banks of the Hill District waves a flag as marchers in Pittsburgh’s Labor Day parade file past on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. “I’m here representing my dad,” she said. “He was a World War II veteran and a steelworker.” Banks is a retired flight attendant. “I had no union, but I wish I would have,” she said. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Union Progress)Striking Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members Stephen Karlinchak, left, and Joe Knupsky man a table across from the Pittsburgh Labor Day parade review stand on the Boulevard of the Allies, Downtown, on Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. They were accepting donations for strikers in exchange for supporters’ choices of the PUP shirts they’re modeling. (Bob Batz Jr./Pittsburgh Union Progress)
