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Labor Chief Vows No Pickets At Convention...

by Blake Cook Jul 24, 2004 7:34AM PDT

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 Friday, one day after an arbitrator settled a two-year contract dispute by awarding disgruntled Boston police with a four-year pay raise of 14.5 percent.

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