The 38-page document is a crucial attempt to lure back convention organizers who have been scared away by the difficulty of dealing with local labor unions. Exhibitors say Philadelphia's workers are expensive, uncooperative, and sometimes downright scary. Mondevergine was arrested and banned from the center after getting into a fistfight with police on the premises. But before that, exhibitors complained that he pretty much ran the union workforce. This specifically prohibits verbal or physical threats or abuse of another individual, including but not limited to the congregation of one or more individuals in an area to create a show of force.
Politicians often receive all kinds of honoraria.
The controversial kind, like junkets to Caribbean golf paradises. And the seemingly harmless kind, like T-shirts or badges bearing clubs' or civic groups' insignias. Most pols toss the tokens of appreciation after shaking hands and acting really, really grateful. But for reasons Heard in the Hall is unqualified to ponder because its staff lacks an advanced degree in psychology, the city's official bean counter can't let them go. City Controller Jonathan Saidel collects them.