Boston Globe union rejects contract, faces 23% pay cut
The Boston Globe’s largest union tonight rejected a contract with deep pay and benefit cuts that the New York Times Co. — the Globe’s parent — said were needed to keep the Globe from shutting down.
The Times immediately said it would impose a 23 percent pay cut on the Boston union.
The Boston Globe’s online site reports that:
Such a move by the New York Times Co., could soon shift the bitter contract dispute from the bargaining table to the National Labor Relations Board and federal courts. The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents more than 600 editorial, advertising and business office workers, has said it would challenge such a move and seek a court order known as an injunction to block the Times Co. from imposing the pay cut.
Guild members voted 277 to 265 to reject the company’s contract offer, which included pay cuts totalling more than 10 percent; deep cuts to health and retirement benefits, including a pension freeze; and the elmination of lifetime job guarantees for about 170 veteran members.
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It looks like the newspaper are trying to turn theirselves into a combo internet-newspaper format to survive.Here’s some idea on how to save the”printed newspaper”.1-Gave people who suscribed to the paper access to the paper’s internet site for free(make others pay for access to the internet site).2-Featured/general intreast articles should be printed in the paper first,than on the internet site a few days later.Gave the readers a reason to pay for the paper.3-Leave the editorials to the editorials pages.Keep the news on the news pages!Listen to your readers,they know more than you think.Just my 2-cents worth.
A 23percent cut seems extreme.The members should have taken the 10% cut.