Media | pay cut Globe Union Caves, Votes to Accept $10M in Cuts By Rob Quinn Posted Jul 21, 2009 2:41 AM CDT Copied Employees of the "Boston Globe," Dorothy Harris and Michelle Bezanson, right, display signs and chant at a rally in Boston to help save the paper. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File) The Boston Globe's biggest union has ended a four-month battle with the New York Times company and voted to accept $10 million in pay and benefit cuts, the Boston Herald reports. Union members—who have been living with a 23% pay cut since rejecting an 8.3% decrease last month—approved a 5.9% wage slice by a wide margin. The deal also includes 8 unpaid work days, a pension freeze and no health insurance for retirees. Read These Next JD Vance in hot water over birthday boating trip. Two state troopers were shot in Pennsylvania "Rock's forgotten genius" said no to Led Zeppelin. He went to kill a Cape buffalo. Instead, it killed him. Report an error