BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh has spent much of the past few days fending off an attack from foes he cannot see: Specifically, unnamed sources who reportedly claim that federal investigators captured Walsh, then a trade union leader in Boston, on a wiretap saying a developer would face permitting problems in the city if it didn't hire union workers for another project in Somerville.
"I would never say something like that – even when I ran the Building Trades five years ago – that was just not my style," Walsh told a gaggle of reporters Monday after he spoke at an event honoring the Boy Scouts.
BOSTON – A trial date has been set in December for a lawsuit challenging a Massachusetts campaign-finance law that lets unions contribute as much as $15,000 to a candidate for election to a state or local office while barring businesses from making any contributions at all.
The action came just weeks after a federal judge in Kentucky granted a preliminary injunction in a similar case, challenging a state law that lets unions donate to campaigns but bars corporations from doing so. The March 31 ruling cited the unequal treatment of corporations and unions under the state law.
