Union carpenters, embroiled in a long-standing dispute with the Pennsylvania Convention Center, have promised not to interfere with the 2016 Democratic national presidential convention in Philadelphia unless . . . . . . Unless the Democratic National Committee holds events at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. "Our protests will not impact any DNC guests, affiliated groups or visitors to Philadelphia that week in any venue where our union members are contracted to work," union leader Edward J. Coryell wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Rev. Leah Daughtry, pastor of House of the Lord Church in Washington and party-appointed chief executive of the convention. The Metropolitan...
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