Boston Labor Leader Awarded Boston Globe Scholarship To Harvard University Trade Union Program.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1999-- John Taglieri, Trustee of Teamsters Teamsters large, powerful union of U. S. truckers. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2703] See : Labor Local 259, has been awarded the Eugene P. Barnes Scholarship for Executive Responsibility in Unions from The Boston Globe for 2000. The scholarship provides for attendance at the Harvard University Trade Union Program and is named for the former Executive Secretary of the Boston Daily Newspaper Association who served in that post from 1954-1976. Taglieri, 36, a native of Quincy and now a resident of Duxbury, was a high school teacher in Quincy before he became a full-time employee in the Globe's delivery department. He has been a Globe employee since 1987. A graduate of Plymouth State College, Taglieri is the 15th labor leader sponsored by the Globe for this program since the Globe began offering the scholarship in 1980. He will begin the 10-week long program in January. The Harvard Trade Union Program provides training for the executive and administrative responsibilities of union officers, enabling them to play more important and useful roles in the labor movement and the community. Judges for the selection process were Dr. Elaine Bernard of the Harvard University Trade Union Program, Father Edward Boyle, S.J. of The Labor Guild of Boston, and Malcolm Y. MacKinnon, former industrial relations director of the Globe. The Globe is the only employer in the U.S. to provide a scholarship to the Harvard Program. The Boston Globe is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : NYT NYT New York Times NYT National Youth Theatre (UK) NYT New York Transit (New York, USA) NYT New York Tribune ) a diversified media company including newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, and electronic information and publishing. The Company's core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment. The Company, which had 1998 revenues of $2.9 billion, publishes The New York Times, The New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. Boston Globe and 21 regional newspapers; publishes three magazines, including Golf Digest; and operates eight network-affiliated television stations and two New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. radio stations. The Company operates nearly 50 Web sites, including nytimes.com, boston.com and winetoday.com as part of its Times Company Digital business unit. It also operates news, photo and graphic services as well as news and feature syndicates. The Company holds interests in one newsprint mill, one supercalendered paper mill and the International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune Daily newspaper published in Paris. It has long been the staple source of English-language news for American expatriates, tourists, and businesspeople in Europe. S.A.S. |
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