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– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News.
Quincy union members laid siege yesterday to already duly as well as otherwise embattled incumbent Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch for the second time this week.
This protest was also at least the fourth such union picketing protest in a little over a month by union members protesting Mayor Koch’s walking back from his promise of facilitating union construction jobs in Quincy.

Unfortunately for duly embattled Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch,  construction workers do not fold after he was caught not upholding his word, unlike numerous – if not all but innumerable – others who have been similarly betrayed.
For example, the all but invariably supplicant City of Quincy City Council.
Related complaints by union workers have been lodged against Quincy Mutual Insurance.
 

Upon review, however, Quincy Quarry finds these grievances to perhaps be a tad unfair.
In short, Quincy Mutual is ultimately trying as best it can to dig itself out from the horrific mess that it less than wittingly inherited in the wake of Mayor Koch divorcing Street-Works, his now former corporate marriage partner to redevelop the still all but utterly underdeveloped Quincy Center, and after Koch then hooked up with a new as well as conflicted Boston facilitator.
Union protests against Koch, however, have unimpeachable merit.
For example, union pension money and union labor helped make both Monroe Place and 10 Faxon, the only truly consequential new private commercial projects to happen in Quincy in over two – if not three – decades.

Simply put, unions put their pension money at risk at a time when endeavoring any new consequential new development in Quincy Center was seen as at about the highest possible high risk of a venture in at least a generation until Koch’s plans with Street-Works imploded last year and so set a new high for risk.
Unions also provided solid support several years ago for the later failed Street-Works plans as – after all – it proposed the substantial, mostly taller and thus primarily steel frame as well as thus longer-lived sort of construction for which construction union workers are all but invariably the best labor option.

Unfortunately, however, apparently also attempts to do good deeds are also punished.
Whether – or not – other long suffering locals also remember these and numerous other Koch betrayals when they go to the polls next fall remains to be seen.
Do, however, expect Quincy Quarry to cover things along the way and in the hard-hitting ways only it does as compared to its media brethren.
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