Unlike Rocky, Becker gets a pass for crossing picket line
Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson angered Utah Democrats when he did it. But Mayor Ralph Becker slipped across a union picket line to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Providence, R.I., last weekend with little notice.
"We were doing our best to not cross the picket line and only cross it when absolutely necessary," Becker spokeswoman Marla Kennedy said. A firefighter union, in a labor dispute with the Providence mayor, picketed outside the conference.
While there, Becker sponsored a successful resolution to speed federal funding of streetcars (the city plans to get a line to Sugar House). He also was elected to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Advisory Board.
In 2004, Anderson attended a mayoral conference in Boston, crossing a police-union picket line and arranging for Mitt Romney to speak at the event as a replacement for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, who refused to violate the union boundary.
The next month, Anderson sparked a squabble among Utah's delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
-- Rosemary Winters
"We were doing our best to not cross the picket line and only cross it when absolutely necessary," Becker spokeswoman Marla Kennedy said. A firefighter union, in a labor dispute with the Providence mayor, picketed outside the conference.
While there, Becker sponsored a successful resolution to speed federal funding of streetcars (the city plans to get a line to Sugar House). He also was elected to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Advisory Board.
In 2004, Anderson attended a mayoral conference in Boston, crossing a police-union picket line and arranging for Mitt Romney to speak at the event as a replacement for Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, who refused to violate the union boundary.
The next month, Anderson sparked a squabble among Utah's delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
-- Rosemary Winters
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