Times Union employees reject outsourcing

According to the Albany Newspaper Guild blog, Time Union employees voted down a contract offer that would have allowed the company to outsource any job and layoff employees regardless of their time and seniority at the newspaper by a vote of 125 to 35.
View the blog release here.

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Boston Newspaper Guild rejects concession package, cuts ensue

With a 277 to 265 vote, The Boston Newspaper Guild rejected a package of concessions that included $10 million in wage and benefit cuts.
New York Times Co., which owns The Boston Globe , has said it will now have to impose a 23 percent pay cut on Globe union staff beginning next week in order to keep the paper functioning.
Said guild president Daniel Totten said of the vote:

"With today's vote, members of the Boston Newspaper Guild have said that The New York Times Company must do better than the offer that was presented. Globe workers and the New England community understand that the quality of The Boston Globe, an institution so vital to the life and culture of the region, depends on the fair treatment of the men and women who work so hard to produce it."

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Approval likely for Wall Street Journal sale

The Wall Street Journal reports that a count of proxy votes indicates Dow Jones shareholders will approve a News Corp. takeover tomorrow.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has offered to buy the company for more than $5 billion, which would end the Bancroft family long ownership of the newspaper.
For the full report click here.