boston.com - 6/9/2009
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Guild president Daniel Totten said he would not comment, until today, on the company's decision to implement the 23 percent pay cut. After the vote, Totten said in a statement: "With today's vote, members of the Boston Newspaper Guild have said that The New York Times Company must do better than ...
buzzmachine.com - 6/15/2009
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buzzmachine.com —
David Carr surveys a series of alleged experts
to try to determine the market value of the...
Boston Globe, now that it’s finally up for sale (oh, if only they’d sold it when they could have). He concludes: No consensus, but most of the ...
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Buy the Globe for the price of a Globe
boston.com - 6/10/2009
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boston.com —
In the last two weeks, three of the
newspaper's four major unions -- representing the mailers, the...
pressmen, and the delivery truck drivers -- ratified concessions giving $10 million back to the Times Co. The Guild -- the paper's largest union ...
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Times Co. seeks Globe bids - The Boston Globe
finance.yahoo.com - 6/9/2009
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finance.yahoo.com —
BOSTON (AP) -- Union members at The Boston
Globe narrowly rejected steep cuts in their pay and...
benefits, but now face even deeper reductions as the 137-year-old newspaper looks to slash $10 million in annual expenses to keep parent company The New ...
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Boston Globe plans deeper cuts after union vote - Yahoo! ...
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The Pay Cut Heard Around The (Boston) Globe
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... Guild, which represents nearly 700 editorial, advertising, and business office workers, has told members it would file unfair labor practice charges with the board and seek a court order blocking the Times Co. from imposing the pay cut. The BNG was the only union to reject concessions. The other three unions, those of the drivers, mailers and pressmen, voted to approve their own cuts totaling nearly $10 million. Management of the paper is taking a 5 percent pay cut. Read more here .
Globe to Times: Drop Dead
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Via the Daily Beast:
The Boston Globe may not be saved after all: The paper’s largest union rejected $10 million in wage and benefit cuts by a mere 12-vote margin, and afterward its owners at The New York Times Co. imposed a 23 percent pay cut on its members. The 700-member union now plans to file unfair labor practice charges with the Labor Relations Board and hopes to block the cut. The Boston Newspaper Guild is the only one of the paper’s four unions to reject the deal. The Boston Globe is projected to lose $85 million this year. ...
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