Having lived in the Boston area for years, I take a perverse sort of pleasure watching the Boston Globe hover on the edge of oblivion. For year after year while I lived there, I watched the Globe support every union issue that came up in the news. No cause was too pro-union to be considered unbalanced. No argument could ever be won by the evil management that -- according to the Globe -- was always trying to undermine the poor unions. Now, the unions are about to force the closure of the Globe. Talk about poetic justice!
Unions are an important and necessary part of a healthy economic system. They have to be realistic in their demands, however. More precisely, the unions have to be realistic in what they will accept. The Globe's newsroom workers are not. Isn't it great that the very people who gather the news are putting themselves out of work. For once, this is change that I can believe in.
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