Saif al-Islam Gadafi, hijo del difunto dictador libio Muamar Gadafi, será enjuiciado en Libia, dijeron funcionarios libios. Agregaron que esperan un veredicto en junio.
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Philadelphia Convention Center Hires CEO, Pushes for Labor Deal.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News June 19, 2003 By Marcia Gelbart, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 19–The Convention Center Authority officially hired its chief executive officer yesterday, voted to look for a private management firm to run the building, and said it would jump-start union negotiations on a labor deal it proposed last week.
Those actions took place in a 30-minute public session that followed a closed-door board meeting that lasted more than three hours.
The board is trying to shed a bedraggled image about conducting business in private, as well as put an end to the prolonged labor troubles that are choking the center, before the state steps in, which could happen as soon as this week, to solve the problems through legislation.
Board member Patrick Gillespie, head of the Building Trades Council, said he hoped that the center’s six unions and its trade-show contractors viewed the board’s proposed labor deal as “a way to grow, not necessarily to maintain the status quo.” The only alternative to forging a labor pact — which has eluded officials for a year — would likely be a state-driven move to empower the center to hire its own workers for the first time. That means existing union workers would have to reapply for the jobs they hold now. see here philadelphia convention center
If no new labor deal were struck by June 30, the board yesterday said it would embrace legislative action. One bill has already been introduced by Rep. Dwight Evans (D., Phila.).
“I think this is the first time in this two-and-a-half-year saga that we’re seriously considering what customers want,” board member Robert A. Butera said.
His comments came after two closed-door presentations made to the board by two tourism-related groups that are alarmed about significant drops in convention bookings in the next several years, the Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association and the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Board chairman Michael Nutter, a city councilman, later vowed to air more of the board’s discussions in public. By law, the board is limited in what it can talk about privately, generally including personnel and legal matters, collective bargaining, and real estate issues. here philadelphia convention center
Also after the private meeting, the board announced it was hiring Albert Mezzaroba, who was named CEO in February but has been working without a contract, or paycheck, until now.
Mezzaroba, a lawyer and former City Council political aide, is a Democrat whose backers are Republican board members. He received a two-year contract that pays $175,000 annually. That is the same salary earned by his predecessor, Butera.
Gillespie and City Solicitor Nelson Diaz, both Democrats, voted against the resolution to hire Mezzaroba. They have echoed the concerns of some tourism leaders that Mezzaroba, also a former board member, has no professional background in the convention industry.
One way the board might resolve the issue is by hiring a private management firm with industry expertise. The board issued a request for proposals yesterday, and said that, under an expedited process, it could privatize the center as early as Aug. 1.
