St. Louis Labor Day Parade line-up set

Be there Sept. 3 when we’ll be ‘Celebrating Solidarity’

The line-up has been set for this year’s St. Louis Labor Council Labor Day parade. The parade will be held in downtown St. Louis on Sept. 3, with the theme “Celebrating Solidarity.”

Groups will start forming at 7 a.m. on Olive Street between Jefferson and 15th streets.

The parade will step off at 9 a.m. led by St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger, St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden and Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson, immediately followed by a horse-drawn trolley with performing members of the Musicians Association of St. Louis Local 2-197, then the United Way, clergy and color guard and proceed east on Olive at 15th to Tucker Blvd., south on Tucker to Market Street, then west on Market to 15th.

UNION LINE-UP

A lottery drawing at the Labor Council’s July meeting set the line-up for the parade. The line-up, from front to back, starting with those unions that have special anniversaries this year, is as follows:

• International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) – 100th Anniversary

• Amalgamated Transportation Union (ATU) – 85th Anniversary

• Laborers (LiUNA) – 85th Anniversary

• Communications Workers (CWA) – 80th Anniversary

• Operating Engineers Local 513 – 50th Anniversary

• Government Employees (AFGE)

• Stagehands

• Plumbers and Pipefitters

• UFCW 655/Gas Workers 11-6

• Iron Workers

• Bricklayers/Insulators/Tile

• Teamsters

• Sprinkler Fitters

• Painters/Allied Trades

• Electricians/Operating Engineers Local 148

• Roofers

• Police Officers Association

• Carpenters

• Elevator Constructors Local 3

• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)

• Teachers (AFT)

• Boiler Makers

• Decorators/Displaymen

• Auto Workers (UAW)

• Letter Carriers/Postal Workers

• Educators (NEA)

• IATSE Locals 148 and 193

• Machinists

• Cement Masons

• SMART Sheet Metal Workers