Pittsburgh’s Labor Day Parade will roll across Downtown Monday morning starting just after 10 a.m. and a moment of silence for fallen workers.
Since it was resurrected in 1984, the Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council has organized this mostly annual (it stopped for two pandemic years) spectacle, featuring union locals (many of wearing matching T-shirts) across the region, marching bands, elected officials and more.
The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, which is still on the country’s longest strike, will be walking the route — from Centre Avenue (near Washington Place) over to Grant Street and then on down the Boulevard of the Allies to Stanwix Street.
According to the AFCLC, the day will begin with the traditional Labor Day Mass at 8 a.m. at St. Benedict the Moor Church. “At 10:00 a.m., following ceremonial sirens from the Pittsburgh firefighters, we will observe a moment of silence in honor of our fallen United Steelworkers brothers who were killed in the Clairton Coke Works explosion” on Aug. 11.
Expected to attend are Gov. Josh Shapiro, Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) General President Brent Booker, United Steelworkers General President David McCall, USW Vice President Roxanne Brown, and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) National Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride, among many other elected and union leaders.
Worker-centric gatherings are marking the holiday in other places. The Pittsburgh Labor Choir will perform at 2:30 p.m. Sunday as part of the Greater Westmoreland County Labor Council/Labor United Celebration at Northmoreland Park in Apollo over two days, Sunday (from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.) and Monday (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.). That family-friendly event also offers amusement rides, a circus, petting zoo and concessions.
For other Labor Day events across Pennsylvania, visit https://paaflcio.com/labor-day-2025/.
The PUP is the publication of the striking workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
