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Article: Organizers halt two convention parties over union picket threats.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- July 22, 2004
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By Andrea Estes, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 22--City convention organizers have canceled two of Mayor Thomas M. Menino's signature convention welcoming parties because delegations from Ohio and Michigan are refusing to cross threatened police picket lines at the events, even with a police union contract set to be announced today.
Planners preparing to stage Sunday night parties for delegations from Ohio and Michigan said officials from Boston's host committee notified them yesterday that the parties were off.
Police have threatened to picket the parties for months, but Menino had recently counted on an ...