{"id":340277,"date":"2026-09-07T23:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340277\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:32:11","slug":"photos-solidarity-celebrated-at-new-york-state-afl-cio-labor-day-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340277\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Solidarity celebrated at New York State AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The New York State\u00a0AFL-CIO celebrated the power and solidarity of the union movement on Labor Day with the Michael L. Burns Labor Day Celebration at Joe Bruno Stadium in Troy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event was free for union members and their families to attend, and nonperishable\u00a0food items were collected for donations to the local food\u00a0bank.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Attendees help themselves to a free buffet at the picnic. The event also featured live music and activities, such as rock-wall climbing, face painting and balloon animal demonstrations. (Lori Van Buren\/Times Union)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"632\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/albany_times_union_471\/506456c61427fb09dce10ecbdfe19f6a.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Attendees help themselves to a free buffet at the picnic. The event also featured live music and activities, such as rock-wall climbing, face painting and balloon animal demonstrations. (Lori Van Buren\/Times Union)<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:There&#039;s more to Albany with the Times Union. Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/subscription.timesunion.com\/checkout\/2017\/4061\/?origin=acquisition&amp;ipid=article&amp;variant=yahoo2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s more to Albany with the Times Union. Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a data-ylk=\"slk:Photos: Solidarity celebrated at New York State AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/photos-nys-afl-cio-labor-day-picnic-22420830.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Photos: Solidarity celebrated at New York State AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York State\u00a0AFL-CIO celebrated the power and solidarity of the union movement on Labor Day with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[127757,127756,40551,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-340277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-afl-cio","tag-joe-bruno-stadium","tag-labor-day","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}