Comments on: Meltdown at the Boston Newspaper Guild? http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/24/meltdown-at-the-boston-newspaper-guild/ By Dan Kennedy • The press, politics, technology, culture and other passions Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:23:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dan Kennedy http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/24/meltdown-at-the-boston-newspaper-guild/comment-page-1/#comment-49974 Dan Kennedy Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:10:29 +0000 http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=6283#comment-49974 Amused: We could be having a meltdown over sour grapes. Believe me, I'm not taking sides in this one — at least not until we know a lot more. Amused: We could be having a meltdown over sour grapes. Believe me, I’m not taking sides in this one — at least not until we know a lot more.

]]> By: amused http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/24/meltdown-at-the-boston-newspaper-guild/comment-page-1/#comment-49971 amused Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:57:54 +0000 http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=6283#comment-49971 Let us not confuse sour grapes with meltdown. Let us not confuse sour grapes with meltdown.

]]> By: Willie http://www.dankennedy.net/2009/09/24/meltdown-at-the-boston-newspaper-guild/comment-page-1/#comment-49967 Willie Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:15:37 +0000 http://www.dankennedy.net/?p=6283#comment-49967 "another way of saying that the $10 million in concessions approved during the summer cut health benefits by considerably more than union members say they’d been led to believe." Seriously? Would some of these "Globe staffers" happen to be reporters? They need to read communications sent to them more carefully. The union membership was informed several times of the consequences of the $10MM cuts. They initially voted down the 8% wage decrease because it was "too much". So they wage decrease ended up being 5.9%. Guess where the other 2% came from? These holier than thou Globe reporters need to get a grip on reality. “another way of saying that the $10 million in concessions approved during the summer cut health benefits by considerably more than union members say they’d been led to believe.”

Seriously? Would some of these “Globe staffers” happen to be reporters? They need to read communications sent to them more carefully. The union membership was informed several times of the consequences of the $10MM cuts. They initially voted down the 8% wage decrease because it was “too much”. So they wage decrease ended up being 5.9%. Guess where the other 2% came from? These holier than thou Globe reporters need to get a grip on reality.

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