How the Guild could torment the Times Co.

Published Jun 12 2009, 03:21 PM by Adam Reilly

One possibility: start adhering to work guidelines that are on the books, but that people have tended not to follow.

Or, as Guild head Dan Totten put it in an email to the Guild's members today:

Dear BNG member:

A reminder that your work day per our Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Boston Newspaper Guild - Boston Globe (Article IV, sections 1 and 2) states members’ workday should not exceed 7.5 hours per day for those on a 5 day work week or 9.5 hours per day for those on 4 day work week. (See contract book for reference; if you do not have a contract book, please contact your BNG delegate and a contract book will be provided or you can view online at www.bgol.org.)

BNG members should not exceed their contractual workday.

The above is not new language but has been in existence for years for the workplace protection and workplace rights of BNG members.

In Unity,

Dan Totten

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3 Comments

Upside_potential said:

Dan needs to be careful ... There are some people over there for whom working-to-rule would represent a major extension of their workdays and work weeks.

June 12, 2009 4:38 PM
Peter Porcupine said:

Ah, very clever...by acting like timeclock wage slaves, and letting other papers scoop them with hard work, they can make the paper even LESS relevant and drive down the value further, and then, they can FORCE the Times to close the doors due to lack of content, and THEN...uh...

June 12, 2009 8:42 PM
mlaurence said:

Peter - nice anti-union rhetoric, but the Globe reporters working to rule would still outnumber all the other news outlets' reporters combined.

June 12, 2009 9:23 PM

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