Union Workers Claim the New York Times Company is Against Free Speech

We can't help but gloat.The Boston Herald reports that the New York Times' own Boston Globe is in a union dispute:

The Boston Globe doesn’t necessarily want freedom of speech to extend to union rabble- rousers.
Globe executives recently offered beefed-up severance and health-care coverage for fired maintenance workers on condition that the Boston Newspaper Guild halt all union activity protesting the workers’ plights.
“They made their offer contingent on us not having any more rallies or actions regarding maintenance outsourcing,” said Daniel Totten, guild president.


The union rejected the offer yesterday — calling it an attempt to quash workers’ rights to free speech and union representation.
“There’s no way we’ll ever agree not to speak out for our people,” Totten said.
The stunning overture, and its rejection, comes as new Globe president Mary Jacobus settles in at Morrissey Boulevard — the troubled broadsheet roiling with employee discontent.
Globe spokesman Al Larkin confirmed the paper’s counteroffer.
“We asked for a couple of things in return for enhancing the offer,” Larkin said. “One, that a grievance that they filed on this issue be dropped, and the second, that there be no further public demonstrations around the issue.”

No word yet on whether Ted Kennedy would call these Wal-Mart values or I don't know New York Times values? No word yet on whether we'll see union bashing editorials at the Globe and the Times.