Boston Globe resumes talks with union

May 5, 2009 – 10:49 am – No Comment

The New York Times Co., owner of the Boston Globe, will resume negotiations with the Boston Newspaper Guild, the paper’s largest union (it represents about 700 editorial, advertising and business employees), in hopes to reach a deal to keep the paper afloat. Talks are set to resume today at 5 p.m.

The New York Times Co., is trying to get the union to make $20 million in concessions. So far it has been able to reach agreements with six unions, but the Boston Newspaper Guild is holding out.

If they can’t reach an agreement, the New York Times Co. has threatened to shut the Boston Globe down.

Looking at how many journalists are losing their jobs, especially print journalists, I can’t understand why the union wouldn’t want to negotiate with the Times. If the paper is shut down, everyone at the paper will be without a job, and I’m sure that is not what the Boston Newspaper Guild is trying to do.