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A Public Labor Fight in Pittsburgh Lays Bare the Deep Fissures Within the Democratic Party

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A Public Labor Fight in Pittsburgh Lays Bare the Deep Fissures Within the Democratic Party
Ed Gainey, then Democratic candidate for mayor of Pittsburgh. Matt Cashore via Ed Gainey’s campaign website
Salena Zito
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PITTSBURGH—Last Monday, Philip Ameris, president of the Laborers’ District Council of Pennsylvania, was standing on Grant Street watching the members of his union march down the main thoroughfare of the annual Pittsburgh Labor Day Parade, the day’s largest such celebration anywhere in the country, when he said he saw Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey hop over the barriers and jump in to join his labor force.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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