Boston papers protest outsourcing to India

The local unions, Massachusetts labour leaders and elected officials joined the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 1,000 Boston Globe employees, to protest the outsourcing of Boston Globe jobs to India by the New York Times Company.

The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of more than 120 jobs at the Boston Globe. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising finance will be outsourced to India.

The job cuts came less than a month after Boston Newspaper Guild members ratified a four-year contract containing no guaranteed wage increases and significantly higher employee health care costs.

The protest came on a day when the Boston Globe had previously scheduled a business symposium entitled, 'How to Attract and Keep Good Workers.'