2013 Laborfest, Labor Day parade canceled

[hue]

Source: JSOnline Milwaukee JournalSentinel

There will be no Laborfest or Labor Day parade this year.

Laborfest, which had been scheduled for Sept. 2, is the signature event for the Milwaukee Area Labor Council AFL-CIO. It had been held for years and included the Labor Day parade to Maier Festival Park.

President Barack Obama made an appearance at Laborfest in 2010.

Sheila Cochran, secretary-treasurer and chief operating officer for the labor council, said because of staff changes at her office, it was decided not to put on the festival and parade.

"We're just regrouping," she said. "Our staff isn't as large as it was. The festival is a pretty big undertaking."

Cochran said she could not say for sure that the festival and parade would return next year.

"But I am pretty certain it will," she said.

Cochran said the cancellation of Laborfest and the parade had nothing to do with the loss of membership labor unions had experienced locally and throughout the state. There is still a strong labor movement in the state, she said.

Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/2013-laborfest-labor-day-parade-canceled-b9951231z1-214856571.html

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and so it goes in Wisconsin...Labor is NO priority here...

[unionthug777]

1. labor IS a priority here

perhaps I heard wrong, but, I believe the 110th Harley-davidson celebration the same weekend. but to say labor isn't a priority is wrong.

[hue]

2. from the article...

Landry said in an email that Maier Festival Park was available for Laborfest this year.

"We hosted both the Harley-Davidson anniversary and Laborfest on Labor Day weekends in the past," Landry wrote.

This year, Harley-Davidson is hosting its 110th anniversary on the festival grounds from Aug. 29 to Sept. 1. That event ends one day before Laborfest was scheduled to be held.

The LD parade was scheduled to be held but was dropped.

Maybe Scott Wanker will lead the Harley Parade!

http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-invites-fellow-governors-for-harley-ride-in-summer/article_fc64808e-85ee-11e2-b721-0019bb2963f4.html

[hue]

3. wait, solution=cancel the Harley festival & keep the Laborfest & Labor parade.

[Rain Mcloud]

4. The priveleged have been mad at Lincoln since abolition

and they have been on the wrong side of every issue since.
The way I see it,they have bought every election while claiming to be in some imaginary majority which was mandated by some sky deity.
They were hand made by god,you see?
We were mass produced to elevate them to the after kingdom in the sky where winged servants sex them up all day and fix mint juleps.

Now they want the states to decide for themselves on the issue of slavery,free labor and no shipping charges.
They forgot however,we suck at being slaves but we shone like diamonds when we were finally getting a piece of the pie.
What can you say about them? Idiots and the idiots who vote for them![link:

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