Globe's largest union rejects cuts in wages, benefits
By adamg - 6/8/09 - 8:36 pm
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.
Adds:
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."
Comments
Surprised, but maybe not
Maybe they figured you either go down fighting or surrender.
I wish them the best.
Wow, sounds like a serious threat ...
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.
What you did, I sees it.
Globe to workers: You made us do this
Management's response.
Good for them
And good luck TO them.
'having a lot of trouble mustering the will to care'
Georgy can barely muster the words to consider the vote:
The Globe has done some great work lately
The Globe is not *uniformly* great, but I don't expect that.
Former Globe biz editor: Both sides blew it
Peter Mancusi, business editor until 2002, explains.