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Topic: Miscellaneous items
Date/Time: 1/24/2008 5:18:19 PM
Title: Boston Newspaper Guild reacts to layoffs story
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Boston Newspaper Guild's letter to Boston Globe execs

TO: Stephen Ainsley, Publisher
Gregory Thornton, Senior Vice President

FROM: Daniel Totten, President/BNG

RE: Boston Globe Layoffs-Metro Story

The Boston Newspaper Guild is disgusted to have read the Metro story about possible layoffs at the Boston Globe with no prior mention of reductions by Globe representatives to The Boston Newspaper Guild.

The Boston Globe's response to the Union's inquiry on this matter is that "no decisions have been made".

If there's any truth to the story in the Metro and there is in fact yet another reduction plan afoot, It's disgraceful the NYT/Globe did not have the common decency nor strength of character to discuss this matter before it was made public, nor even a phone call placed to The Boston Newspaper Guild to disclose such an item was breaking news, or request any input from The Boston Newspaper Guild on such an important decision by the NYT/Boston Globe.

The Boston Newspaper Guild has endured far too many cutbacks, numbering well into the hundreds over the last few years.

Successful companies do not reduce their finest asset, it's employees, to the bare bones and expect to maintain quality and achieve consistent success.

Perhaps the time is long overdue for review of all NYT compensation for executives along with a cost benefit analysis of exactly what each and every manager from the very top on down, have brought to the company over the last few years.

The fact remains that the Boston Newspaper Guild has ALREADY lost literally HUNDREDS of experienced, dedicated, LOYAL employees in a very short time, which is nothing short of a travesty and reflects horribly on the value the NY Times puts on it's Boston Globe employees - the human beings who have put out the Boston Globe product - an incredible product and effort, for well over a hundred years.

The Boston Newspaper Guild demands NO MORE CUTBACKS of loyal union members.

It is the Boston Newspaper Guild members who remain committed to producing the Boston Globe and maintaining it's quality and character --we expect the same commitment in return from The NY Times and Boston Globe.

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