DEALS OF THE $DAY$ PG. 3 THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 DEALS OF THE Saugus selectman spoke up about bikes GE union$DAY$ By Bridget Turcotte — they leave them and they get picked it was there for two weeks before I was PG. 3 ITEM STAFF up,” said Brazis. noti ed,” said Brazis, who asked Town Dockless bike shares do not require a Manager Scott Crabtree to obtain a le- SAUGUS — A Saugus selectman docking station. Users instead park the gal opinion on whether the bike could told to wants abandoned ride-share bikes to bikes within a de ned district, either hit the road. be considered abandoned and removed Selectman Scott Brazis said his con- at a bike rack or along the sidewalk, by the town. DEALS cern was sparked by a letter he re- and they are located and unlocked by This wasn’t the rst time Crabtree another user or the company using a had heard about the problem, he said. prepareOF THE ceived from a resident who was fed up with seeing the green and yellow bikes cell phone app. “There was one on Western Avenue $ $ littered across town. But many of the bikes lay abandoned that looked like it was hit by a car and DAY “We don’t have those bikes here in for days or weeks, said Brazis. it was there for a while,” said Crabtree, PG. 3 town but they do in Malden and Re- “There has been a bike on Main who told Brazis that someone from his for strike vere, and if somebody drives them into Street for two-and-a-half weeks since town — that’s what they’re there for I’ve been made aware of it, and I guess SAUGUS, A3 By Gayla Cawley ITEM STAFF LYNN — Members ofDEALS the International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE) Local Peabody Dinnertime 201 in Lynn have beenOF told THE to “prepare for a strike” after their rejection of a pro- posed labor contract with$ DAGeneralY$ Electric council on Tuesday shocked the companyPG. 3 and was af rmed by a collective nationwide vote of the IUE-CWA (Communications Workers of revisits America) union. The Lynn union’s vote could have been overturned if the majority of IUE-CWA low-cost sites across the countryDEALS approved the four- year deal. It’s the rst time the union has collectively voted to rejectOF a THEnational con- housing tract with the company since$ 1969. $The cur- rent deal expired on June DA23. Y “Every contract we have PG.been 3 asked to By Thomas Grillo give up more and Lynn has obviously had ITEM STAFF enough,” said Adam Kaszynski, IUE Local PEABODY — Three 201 president, which represents 1,253 em- months after the City ployees at General Electric’s River Works Council upped the re- Plant in Lynn. “This contract was not just quirement for develop- about wages. It was the constant giving ers to provide affordable back that GE (has) asked (for and) the con- housing, a councilor is stant cuts they put on our backs when we’re seeking to reverse the pro- the ones generating a pro t for this com- vision. pany.” Ward 5 City Council- Eleven unions, representing 6,100 GE or Joel Saslaw will try to workers across the country, which rep- convince the 11-member resents a fraction of the company’s global panel Thursday night to workforce, voted Tuesday. reduce the percentage of The rejection will likely send the two affordable units to 20 per- sides back to the table for negotiations, but cent, down from the 25 Kaszynski said the next step is organiz- percent approved by the ing its membership to prepare for a strike council in April. should one become necessary. Lynn’s GE “We increased the af- plant last rejected a contract in 2011, which fordable requirement to was overturned by a collective vote, and last 25 percent, from 15 per- went on strike in 1984. Union membership cent last spring, but it will unanimously voted to authorize one before handicap developers and negotiations began, he said. discourage housing con- Kaszynski said the union took issue with struction,” he said. an increase in healthcare premiums in the Debate over so-called in- contract, which would have marked a 64 clusionary zoning, which percent increase since 2011 and the lack requires builders to re- of a cost of living increase. In addition, al- serve a percentage of the though the contract called for hourly wage apartments or condomini- increases, he said the union hasn’t seen a ums for income-eligible percentage base wage increase since 2010. tenants or buyers, comes The union also took issue with giving up amid a housing crisis in de ned pension bene ts for employees over Massachusetts. the last three contracts. Through May, the num- Under the proposed contract, employees ber of single-family home would receive three general wage increases sales fell by 7 percent in totaling $1.80 per hour, two accelerated cash Peabody, while the median payments totaling $3,000 and a rati cation price rose by 2.4 percent bonus of $1,500. According to General Elec- ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK to $435,000, according to tric, based on an average wage of $31 per hour, A Cooper’s hawk perches on a pole supporting a net at Lt. Ross Park in Pea- PEABODY, A3 body as it enjoys dinner on Tuesday. GE, A2 Lynn folk singer is bound for glory at Guthrie Center husband. White jokes, as is his way, A career highpoint will occur but this opportunity to perform on Aug. 3, when the Lynn native and lm a show in this beloved BY BILL BROTHERTON and Classical High grad will re- Berkshires building means a cord his concert at The Guthrie great deal to him. Lynn native Don LYNN — Don White has built Center in Great Barrington. The “In my personal journey, this White will record a national reputation as a folk show will also be lmed for use is a milestone to be able to re- his concert at The singer, storyteller and author. in a documentary. “And it’ll be cord here,” said White. “It means Guthrie Center in His songs are lled with wry hu- part of my next CD. I thought a lot to me.” Great Barrington mor and heart-tugging poignan- I’d make one more CD before In the 1990s, singer-songwriter on Aug. 3. cy, many exploring the joys and CDs become obsolete … I might frustrations of being a dad and already be too late.” WHITE, A3 PHOTO | FRED ELLERT INSIDE Opinion Swampscott native will try to Cawley: A cautionary Airbnb tale. A4 swim his way around Manhattan Lynn Police arrest man By Gayla Cawley If he’s successful this week, he’ll turn his on drug traf cking ITEM STAFF focus to taking on the more famous English charges. A6 Channel swim, which is 21 miles from Dover, SWAMPSCOTT — Swampscott native Craig England, to Cap Gris-Nez in France. But he Lewin will attempt to complete his second leg LOOK! expects the third leg would be at least two Nursing home of the Triple Crown of open-water swimming years away because of the swim’s high expense renamed after on Saturday, when he takes on the grueling 20 Marblehead couple. A8 Bridges Swim Around Manhattan. and the need for intensive training. Lewin, who swam competitively at Swamp- ITEM FILE PHOTO Lewin, 33, a Canton resident, completed the Sports rst leg last year when he swam the Catalina scott High School and Boston College, said the Peabody 12’s sit Craig Lewin, formerly of Swampscott, Channel, which stretches from Santa Catalina 28.5-mile Manhattan swim will be a different one win away from will take on the Bridges Swim Around Island, a rocky island off the California coast, district title. B1 Manhattan on Saturday. to Los Angeles. SWIM, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS ....................................B4 HIGH 85° VOL. 141, ISSUE 181 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 LOW 72° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 OBITUARIES Lucy A. Coppola, 93 Baker outlines TNC safety MARBLEHEAD — Lucy A. bill, seeks congestion data (Leonardi) Coppola, of Mar- blehead, passed away peace- fully on July 8, 2019 at the By Chris Lisinski checks, a number that En- age of 93. She was the loving STATE HOUSE ergy and Environmental wife for 68 years to James E. NEWS SERVICE Affairs Secretary Kath- Coppola, who predeceased leen Theoharides said is BOSTON — Ride-hail- “continuing to grow and to her. ing companies such as The daughter of Italian im- grow quickly.” Uber and Lyft would face Massachusetts State Po- migrants, the late Salvatore a range of new safety and and Concetta Leonardi, sister lice Lt. Col. Robert Favuz- data-collection regulations za, who joined Baker and to the late Joseph A. Leonar- under legislation outlined di, Mary R. (Leonardi) Cataldo other administration of - Wednesday by Gov. Char- cials at Wednesday’s press and Francis (Leonardi) Giuffri- lie Baker, measures that da, she was born in Lawrence conference, said police the administration be- at Logan Airport have at and raised in Lynn. After grad- lieves will better position uating from Lynn English High times written more than the state to deal with rap- $10,000 in nes against School she attended the Kath- idly increasing use of the leen Dell School in Brookline ride-hailing drivers for vi- (Philip) Gawrys, Claire, James services and the resulting olations in a span of just and worked at a prominent roadway congestion.