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Bus, subway and trolley service in Philadelphia halted on Tuesday as transit workers went on strike over wages, pensions and health benefits. Talks between the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and Transport Workers Union Local 234 broke...
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The Boston Globe's largest union has approved a $10m (£6.1m) package of salary and benefits cuts, ending a standoff with publisher the New York Times Company, which had previously threatened to close the title. Yesterday the Boston Newspaper Guild, which...
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The Boston Globe late Tuesday reached a tentative agreement with its largest union on a package of wage and benefits cuts intended to curb deepening losses at New England's biggest daily and streamline it for sale. Officials from the Globe and the Boston...
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As its talks with management of the Boston Globe continued on Wednesday, the largest union representing employees of the newspaper offered an upbeat assessment of the discussions. "We are optimistic about the prospects for reaching an agreement after...
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D ouble-barreled threats of a draconian pay cut and unilateral layoffs forced the Boston Globe’s largest union to buckle to management demands in a pre-dawn pact that could save the paper for now. The New York Times [ NYT ] Co., itself facing a severe...
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Six of the seven unions representing employees of the money-losing Globe reached tentative agreements with Times Co., which has threatened to shut the 137-year-old newspaper unless it agrees to $20-million (U.S.) in concessions. But the future of New...
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The Boston Globe received an eleventh-hour reprieve early this morning when its owner, the New York Times Co. , agreed to extend the deadline for unions to agree to $20 million in concessions until tomorrow. More than a half-hour after the midnight deadline...
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The San Francisco Chronicle and its largest union have reached a tentative agreement on contract concessions that are part of the newspaper's efforts to dramatically cut costs. The terms reached late Monday with the California Media Workers Guild give...
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Members of the largest union at Denver-based Qwest Communications International Inc. have ratified a new contract. Al Kogler of the Communications Workers of America said Friday that about 77 percent of voting members ratified the deal. The union represents...
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The 20,000 union members in 13 states, including about 850 in Omaha and nearly 1,000 in Nebraska, had authorized a strike . But the union said its members continued to work Sunday "as a sign of good faith." Teresa Taylor, chief administrative officer...
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