"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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