Globe Reporter Rails Against Agreement With Times Co.

Last time we checked in, The Boston Globe‘s largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, had reached a tentative agreement with the paper’s owner, the New York Times Co., and union members were preparing to vote on the deal July 20.

But today, alternative newspaper The Boston Phoenix published a letter from Globe reporter Brian Mooney urging his fellow guild members to vote “no” later this month.

Mooney argues that under the new agreement, which is “at best, marginally better than the one we voted down on June 8,” the guild members stand to lose “more than the barbaric 23 percent wage cut the NY Times Co.

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