What you described was actually said by the Pres of the ILA Teddy Gleeson in 85 or 86. He was asked why the ILA no longer marched in NYC’s Labor Day Parade. He said, “ My guys are busy closing up their summer homes out on Long Island or down on the Jersey Shore. They can’t make it here on Labor Day.”
Interestingly the NY Unions changed the date of the parade to the Saturday after Labor Day.
More than one. Thanks for that reference.
My story was from the Detroit News because I am a provincial Michigan person myself.
Went to college at Wayne State University which is home of the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs. It’s the largest labor archive in North America.
Also once or twice a week for about three years I drove past the Machus Red Fox Restaurant where Jimmy Hoffa was last seen alive. I have an alibi for that day, though.
If anybody asks, we were at grandma’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_z_8_nex0