Senator Scott Brown is fond of saying he is the 41st vote. He's also an "independent voter and thinker," or so he says. Bostonist thinks you can't be independent and always be the 41st vote. Anyway...Senator Brown faces a test of his independence/41stness today with the looming confirmation of attorney Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Republicans, including Senator John McCain, who we'll get back to, can hold up this nominee now that Brown has replaced Ted Kennedy. The GOP, according to FoxNews.com, doesn't like an article Becker wrote in 1993. In what has to be a pure coincidence - what else could it be? -, Politico reported Brown will campaign in March for McCain. We think the campaign swing might be more effective if Brown and McCain had a few votes in common. Bostonist is no expert on getting mavericky, though.
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So, the Boston Newspaper Guild voted to reject the New York Times Company's proposed contract that would cut wages and benefits by $10 million. And, in response, the New York Times Co. instituted a unilateral 23% pay cut effective Sunday for all Globe employees covered under the Boston Newspaper Guild's contract. What next?
Having once worked for a labor union, Bostonist knows that relations between workers and management can get more than a little tense. But we were impressed with the audacity of Harborside Healthcare: The Boston company is challenging the results of a union election, saying that the voting was not fair because a union organizer threatened to use voodoo on healthcare workers (most of whom are Haitian) if they didn't vote for the union.