AFL-CIO boss: No pickets at DNC ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOSTON - Delegates to next week's Democratic National Convention - and presidential candidate John Kerry - will not have to cross picket lines of protesting police officers when they attend the four-day event.
'I can unequivocally say that there won't be any picketing at the FleetCenter,' Robert Haynes, the president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, said yesterday, one day after an arbitrator settled a two-year contract dispute by awarding disgruntled Boston police a four-year pay raise of 14.5 percent.