With flags waving and grills sizzling, hundreds turned out to enjoy a day of unity and entertainment <\/p>\n
Families and workers united at the Roberta Bondar Pavillion this afternoon for the city\u2019s 66th Labour Day celebration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hosted by the Sault Ste. Marie Labour Council, workers from a wide variety of unions came together to celebrate the day with a parade of flags and fun family activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Face painting, a barbecue, a bicycle giveaway, and a motorcycle show were among the activities at this year\u2019s holiday gathering \u2014 which has its roots in the Canadian labour movement dating back to the 19th century.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s our way of supporting the members, advocating for the members, and getting together and supporting the labour movement,\u201d said Linda Souliere, VP with UFCW Locals 175 and 633.<\/p>\n
Along with supporting the labour movement, Monday\u2019s gathering was about having fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s good that everybody’s educated and realizes the hardships \u2026 through the labour movement over the years, and it’s definitely something that gets left on the light side,\u201d said Cory Burke, from the Iron Workers Local 786.<\/p>\n
The iron workers union organized the bicycle giveaway and motorcycle show for all to enjoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe give the bikes away \u2014 we started that years ago, and now everybody just jumped on board and it’s a good thing,\u201d Burke said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With flags waving and grills sizzling, hundreds turned out to enjoy a day of unity and entertainment Families…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,60448,44],"class_list":["post-112881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-labour-day","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}