Despite light rain, nearly 200 units in Pittsburgh's Labor Day parade marched through Downtown for more than two hours, marking the return of the event after a two-year pause due to the pandemic.
Jack Shea was the face of the Allegheny-Fayette Central Labor Council when he was its president for close to two decades, speaking at labor rallies and supporting strikers on the picket line. Shea died Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. He was 79. Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald called Shea a “giant”