BUTTE — The annual Labor Day picnic in Butte is a family affair, but it’s also a Butte tradition.

Mike Boysza opens a giant pot of pork and beans and stirs as the food slowly cooks over a giant grill that he made himself. The grill is positioned at the entrance of the annual Labor Day picnic at Stodden Park.

Boysza may just have the most important job at the annual picnic that celebrates work done by Union members across many sectors of labor in Butte.

"I built this griddle about 20 years ago, so I’ve been doing it pretty much since then" says Boysza.

Boysza estimates he grills over 100 hotdogs for the event and that means he has likely cooked well over 20-thousand hotdogs over the past two decades. But he’s not the only one working over a hot grill today.

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