End of Another Big Paper? Boston Globe Prepares to Shutter in 60 Days, NYT Co. Tells Unions "Agree or Else"

by Benjamin Domenech on 2:46 am May 4, 2009

137-year-old Boston Globe would be the most prominent paper yet to shut down in the midst of turmoil throughout newspaper industry. Appreciate the irony of the famously pro-union (editorially) New York Times Company issuing ultimatums that the Globe’s four unions must “agree to major financial and contract concessions, including the abolition of lifetime job guarantees.”

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