31.   Shaw is the executive director of that Community Services Program, which is run out of the union hall and is open to all community members.

32.   Signs inside the union hall urged strikers to call company executives to complain about the contract proposal.

33.   Some Machinists who were at the union hall reviewing the new proposal said they were happy with it.

34.   That theme played out at the Democratic unity breakfast in a Dorchester union hall Wednesday.

35.   The agreement would allow nonunion contractors to compete, but all nonsupervisory nonunion workers would have to go through union halls.

36.   The group of men and women at the union hall gathered for a moment of silence outside the building as the U.S. flag was lowered to half-staff.

37.   The Machinists will have the final say on Wednesday when they cast their ballots at union halls spread throughout Washington, Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan.

38.   The Rev. Karockas Watkins, pastor of Emmanuel Church, said four banks denied his request to borrow money to buy a former union hall in Decatur.

39.   The Spar Bar is shuttered, and the union hall has moved to Queens.

40.   The unions have kept reporters out of the union halls.