{"id":280982,"date":"2026-09-07T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280982\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:16:07","slug":"huge-turnout-for-philadelphias-labor-day-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280982\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge turnout for Philadelphia\u2019s Labor Day Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Labor Day Parade drew an unusually large turnout on Monday, but not everyone who was expected showed up.<\/p>\n<p>The unofficial last day of summer was the most beautiful of the season, drawing thousands of union members, their families and politicians from every level of government. <\/p>\n<p>Labor Day not only marks the unofficial end of summer, but also the unofficial start of the general election season. Politicians flocked to the pre-parade rally, including Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, who is running for reelection with his boss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as Josh Shapiro and I are in charge in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania will never be a right-to-work state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Mike Driscoll, sporting an electricians union T-shirt, said the city\u2019s elected officials show up not just to get support, but to show support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for politicians to stand with labor to let them know we have their back, because nationally, they\u2019re being attacked,\u201d he said, \u201cand we gotta make sure here in Pennsylvania and here in Philadelphia, they know we\u2019re behind them every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a rumor that former electricians leader John Dougherty \u2014 who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/trump-commutes-sentence-john-dougherty\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released from prison<\/a> Friday after a presidential commutation of his six-year sentence for corruption and embezzlement \u2014 wanted to attend, but he was not spotted. That was just fine for current IBEW Local 98 President James Foy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not really concerned,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m more happy about the turnout to celebrate economic, social issues that organized labor throughout history has made sure they have done great things. That\u2019s all I\u2019m concerned about. I think the union\u2019s positioned well. We\u2019re doing great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s parade took a new route \u2014 up Washington Avenue and back to the Sheet Metal Workers Local 19 hall for what one called \u201cthe world\u2019s longest buffet line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Labor Day Parade drew an unusually large turnout on Monday, but not everyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117463,64683,117462,69,71,70,4500],"class_list":["post-280982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-ibew-local-98","tag-labor-day","tag-labor-day-parade","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}