The Labor Day Parade came early this year.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | September 1, 2015

No. 1,208

Today at lunch time portions of the Boulevard of the Allies and Grant Street were closed for a parade by steel workers.  They were protesting a lock out by Allegheny International. Mayor Bill Peduto joined the festivities. That was notable, because you don’t usually expect the mayor to take sides in a labor dispute.

I’ve seen this kind of parade before, but the marchers walked on the sidewalk and didn’t require a police escort.   There are also noontime rallies, but they are confined to places like Market Square or the courtyard at the County Courthouse where traffic disruption is rather minimal.

We had a front row view, since our car was trapped behind a saw horse  with a traffic officer to make sure we didn’t move it.  Actually, there were lots of police, including a motorcycle cavalcade at the head of the column.  Very impressive. Very frustrating, too.

We had someplace to be.  Fortunately, this time,we had enough time to wait for the parade to go by.

CLT

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