Globe's largest union rejects cuts in wages, benefits

By adamg on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 9:36pm

Paper to impose 23% pay cut, which will likely lead to court and federal hearings.

Steve Silva tweets the vote was 265-277.

Dan Kennedy tweets:

To everyone's credit, BosGlobe has continued to put out a good paper this year despite months of labor chaos. Assume that will continue.

And if NYTCo threat to close BosGlobe was empty, what does that say about threat to impose 23% pay cuts?

David Stephenson tweets:

hope that some combo of Jack Welch, Jack Connors, John Henry, Ned Johnson reconsider, come forward to save the Globe.

Globe sportswriter Chad Finn tweets that he is "devastated and frustrated."

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Comments

Surprised, but maybe not

By david_yamada
Mon, 06/08/2009 - 9:55pm

Maybe they figured you either go down fighting or surrender.

I wish them the best.

Wow, sounds like a serious threat ...

By JohnAKeith
Mon, 06/08/2009 - 11:28pm

This sounds bad. If the Globe's owners call the unions' bluff, I can just imagine the headline, the next day:

"Globe owners close down newspaper, wor

I see what you did there.

By Kaz
Tue, 06/09/2009 - 12:44pm

What you did, I sees it.

Globe to workers: You made us do this

By adamg
Mon, 06/08/2009 - 11:50pm

Management's response.

Good for them

By fenwayguy
Mon, 06/08/2009 - 11:50pm

And good luck TO them.

'having a lot of trouble mustering the will to care'

By adamg
Tue, 06/09/2009 - 10:23am

Georgy can barely muster the words to consider the vote:

... Maybe it's battle fatigue. Maybe it's a creeping feeling of hopelessness. Or indifference. I don’t know. But while the NYTimes has been shut up in stony silence and the Globe has been wrestling internally with its own fate, the readers have been left to watch the spectacle unfold, seeing pieces of the paper get sloughed off and the occasional WTF feature snag prime column inches. I understand that livelihoods are at stake, but let’s divest the personal concerns from this situation for a moment, if I may. Isn't a newspaper supposed to service its readership? How, right now, are we being served? ...

The Globe has done some great work lately

By neilv
Tue, 06/09/2009 - 1:21pm

The Globe is not *uniformly* great, but I don't expect that.

Former Globe biz editor: Both sides blew it

By adamg
Tue, 06/09/2009 - 2:17pm

Peter Mancusi, business editor until 2002, explains.

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