Three days of sunshine and warm temperatures is the perfect recipe for the annual Labour Day picnic Monday.
Saturday will be sunny and 22, Sunday sunny and 23 and Monday sunny and 26.
“This year’s Annual Labour Day Picnic is our 10th, and we’re proud of how large the event has grown,” says Henri Giroux, Labour Council President.
The North Bay and District Labour Council will celebrate Labour Day by hosting its annual Picnic and Flag March.
The Flag March starts at 11 a.m. at the top of Memorial Drive and is followed by the popular free Picnic BBQ in the grassy bandshell area of North Bay’s beautiful waterfront. The theme this year is “We Stand for Fairness.”
“We’re helping out the local Food Bank by asking folks to bring a non-perishable food item to the Picnic," says Giroux.
“In addition,” adds Giroux, “we will continue to promote the expansion of the Canadian Pension Plan and urging our Federal Government to completely ban the use of asbestos in Canada.”
The picnic will feature huge inflatable slides and castles, a climbing wall, face painting, live music, fish pond, and of course the BBQ, pop, and cake.
“Labour Day is a great day to highlight the fact that unions have helped Canada become such a socially and economically strong country. Canadians enjoy a relatively decent quality of life, but things could be better, much better," said Giroux.
“That’s why this year we’re promoting a campaign called Make it Fair, a campaign designed to bring awareness to potential improvements in the Labour Relations Act and the Employment Standards Act.
“It’s simply no longer fair for too, too many citizens. The precariously employed and the work they do needs to be regarded as an important part of the local economy. Low-paying and insecure jobs do not lead to a decent standard of living anymore; instead, they perpetuate poverty.
“After all, a decent, stable job is the best way to end poverty, and that’s what we should strive toward,” urges Giroux.
