Update: Contract Vote Tonight

Just in case you are still thinking about all of this, the Newspaper Guild will vote on the contract with management tonight.

Despite telling their employees that management will be eating buckets of puppies with the profits from the new deal, Guild leadership has also encouraged a “yes” vote.

It’s good that there’s no strike — who would I make fun of? — but it also seems like some sort of unfulfilled promise; all these weeks and weeks of nasty memos back and forth and then… nothing. But who roots for people to lose their jobs (or walk off them)? I guess this shitty ending will have to do.

And, finally, by tonight everything will be over and we all never, ever, ever have to think about pension plans or seniority again. The Guild will, though, since the deal’s only three years.

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