"Globe Guild leader takes heat as talks divide staff" by Robert Gavin, Globe Staff | April 30, 2009
In negotiating concessions to save The Boston Globe, Daniel Totten, president of the newspaper's biggest union, sometimes faces a tougher crowd than The New York Times Co. executives across the table: his own members.
Totten leads the Boston Newspaper Guild, a union that encompasses the diverse and sometimes conflicting interests of more than 600 editors, reporters, advertising sales reps, business office workers, and security guards. In the best of times, it's a roiling, opinionated, and fractious group. But the normal fault lines have begun to widen under the pressure of the threatened shutdown of the Globe unless the Guild and other unions agree to $20 million in concessions by tomorrow....
I will go to the newsstand tomorrow to see what is there --if anything -- and what the explanation is one way or the other.
