nytimes.com - 4/4/2009
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The company is looking for $20 million in savings from The Globe in the form of pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions, according to a person briefed on the talks.
boston.com - 4/4/2009
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By Robert Gavin and Robert Weisman, Globe Staff
The New York Times Co. has threatened to shut...
the Boston Globe unless the newspaper's unions swiftly agree to $20 million in concessions, union leaders said. Executives from the Times Co. and...
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gatewaypundit.blogspot.com - 3/31/2009
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The radical ACORN organization worked closely with the
Obama campaign during the election this past year although...
the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election: One ...
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Breaking: NY Times Spiked Major Obama-ACORN Story Before ...
boston.com - 3/30/2009
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WASHINGTON - Just months before the start of
last year's stock market collapse, the federal agency that...
insures the retirement funds of 44 million Americans departed from its conservative investment strategy and decided to put much of its $64 billion ...
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Pension insurer shifted to stocks - The Boston Globe
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NYTimes Threatens to Shut Down Boston Globe
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The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to concessions like pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions, according to a person briefed on the talks.
The company is looking for $20 million in savings from The Globe, which has already gone through several rounds of deep cost-cutting and staff reductions. The company does not report figures by newspaper, but executives have acknowledged that the Globe lost tens of millions of dollars last ...
Liberal NYT Threatens To Close Boston Globe If No Worker Concessions
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Whatever will Barack Hussein Obama have to say about these evil capitalists exploiting the working class ? The New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to concessions like pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions, according to a person briefed on the talks. The company is looking for $20 million in savings from The Globe, which has already gone through several rounds of deep cost-cutting and staff reductions. The company does not report figures by newspaper, but executives have acknowledged that the Globe lost tens ...
Kerry Newspaper Hearings To Begin April 30
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... Kerry's letter to the Globe family comes on the heels of recent threats by parent company The New York Times to shut down the Boston paper. On April 3rd, the Times reported it was considering an end to the paper: ...
The American Press on Suicide Watch
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... are teetering. The New York Times Company threatened to close The Boston Globe if its employees didn't make substantial sacrifices in salaries and benefits. ...
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