Is
there a possible settlement in the nasty dispute between the Pennsylvania
Convention Center and the carpenters' union?
"They're
talking," said Martin O'Rourke, spokesman for the carpenters, declining to
say anything more.
The
hint of a possible detente came in the briefest of motions the Convention
Center Authority filed Monday in its federal racketeering case against the
union and some of its current and former officers, including now-retired union
leader Edward J. Coryell and his son. The Authority "with the consent of
all Defendants" sought a 30-day stay in the case, filed in May 2015. U.S.
District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro agreed to stay the
case until Oct. 19.
The
Convention Center's suit accused the union of organizing a campaign of
vandalism and interference with the convention center's business ever since the
union lost its jurisdiction to work in the center in May 2014.
Why
anything in that case would need to be postponed raises questions, since
nothing has happened in it for months, other than the Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters being
added as a defendant. It sought to be named as a defendant because, in
February, the northern New Jersey-based council took over the leadership of the
Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters in Philadelphia, ousting Coryell in the
process.
The
Convention Center has also put in a request to postpone a hearing in a related
Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board case that was set for later this week,
Convention Center chief executive John McNichol said. "We'll tell you what
we're doing," he said, "but we won't tell you why."
Source: Philly.com
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