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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, June 11, 2004 ::
Union protests lead to convention project delays By Jennifer Peter, AP,Boston.com
Hundreds of firefighters, electricians and other trade workers stood beside unionized police officers, who organized the demonstration to protest their lack of a contract. The union has threatened to maintain a round-the-clock presence outside the FleetCenter and the attached North Station until Mayor Thomas Menino meets its contract demands.
The work never got started on Tuesday, as most subcontractors refused to cross the picket line a cardinal sin of organized labor. Those who did cross were greeted with shouts of ''scab'' and ''shame on you.''
Mayor-friendly workers still report for duty By Scott Van Voorhis , Boston Herald
Trade unions with close ties to Mayor Thomas M. Menino showed up for work yesterday at the FleetCenter, defying a police union picket line to report for duty retrofitting the arena for the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
While hundreds of union patrolmen, union firefighters and Verizon workers surrounded the FleetCenter, about 25 laborers and carpenters braved the catcalls of the pickets to enter the arena.
The laborers and the carpenters are part of a coalition of trade unions that has given money to the DNC. Those unions benefit from Menino's generally pro-union and pro-development approach when it comes to big construction projects, observers said.------------------------------------------- posted 6:40 AM :: reference link ::
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