'Boston Globe' labor talks resume

ByABC News
May 3, 2009, 9:25 AM

BOSTON -- Labor union leaders at The Boston Globe continue to meet with representatives of the paper's owner, The New York Times Co., about contract concessions management says are needed to keep the Globe running.

A spokesman for the Boston Newspaper Guild, the Globe's largest union, says the talks are expected to last late into Sunday night. The two sides started discussions around noon at the Labor Guild in Weymouth.

The Boston Newspaper Guild released a statement Sunday morning saying the deep cuts in worker's pay and benefits it's offering should be more than enough to save the newspaper. It said the union is confident the Times Co. is committed to reaching an agreement.

The Times Co. set a deadline of midnight Sunday for unions to make $20 million in concessions.