Chicago Labor Day Parade returns to far Southeast Side after COVID hiatus
Linda Perez, second from left, dances to music from a parade float while picnicking with her family at the Chicago Labor Day Parade on South Ewing Avenue in the East Side neighborhood on Sept. 3, 2022, in Chicago.
“Starbucks is open all the damn time,” said Reed Essex, who works at a Bucktown Starbucks that recentlyThis year, Labor Day takes on an added poignancy for the Starbucks baristas who lined up to march in the parade alongside teamsters, iron workers and other workers amid an ongoing fight for better working conditions in Starbucks stores. At least 10 Chicago Starbucks stores have filed for union representation with Starbucks Workers United since January.
The Chicago Labor Day parade, back for the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, kicked off around noon with music, floats and marchers traversing for blocks in the hot sun, the event coming in the midst of a flood of union activity in the past year.between October 2021 and March as compared to the previous fiscal year, with some pointing to dangerous working conditions during the last two years during the pandemic.
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