The Times Co.'s last, shittiest offer

Published May 05 2009, 09:33 PM by Adam Reilly

My close personal friend Dan Kennedy suggests that the Times Co.'s proposed 23 percent pay cut for Boston Newspaper Guild members will unify the union--kind of like management's late-breaking math error did last week.

I've got a different take. The pay-cut proposal strikes me as the Times Co.'s way of saying: You won't compromise on lifetime-job guarantees? Here's what your intransigence will get you. The reaction from the Guild rank-and-file, I predict, will be something like this: Why the fuck aren't we compromising on lifetime job guarantees?!?

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edsox15 said:

Adam, I am *very* close to this and I can tell you that you are right on. It has started already, trust me on this. The cry that started tonight will be a full fledged howl tomorrow. Three quarters of the guild don't have that guarantee, and certainly don't want to take a 23% pay cut for the one quarter that do. It's not going to help union solidarity, that is for sure.

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