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...council had agreed to award a 47 percent tax break under the 121A clause to Biogen, Inc., a Cambridge biotechnology company. Biogen received the special treatment to undertake a construction project in Kendall Square...
Local 40, the carpenter's union, had originally objected to the tax break. But Mark Erlich, the Local 40 manager, said the union changed its mind when he reached a verbal agreement with Biogen's subcontractors that only union labor would be hired...
...believe this is a private disagreement inwhich neither Biogen nor the city council isrightfully involved," Mullin said...
Despite the lack of a written provisionstipulating that only union workers be hired,Mullin said in his defense that Biogen has takenseveral steps that have helped the local economy...
...councillor said she found it "interesting"that Biogen would actively recruit Cambridgeresidents while omitting, in its contract withMarshall, stipulations about unions and fair laborpractices...