Thursday, April 30, 2009

Last Day of Print For the Boston Globe?

Either way, it WILL be the last day of purchase from these quarters. Today they are savaging the union head in an obvious attempt to conquer and divide.

"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....

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I will go to the newsstand tomorrow to see what is there --if anything -- and what the explanation is one way or the other.