What’s wrong with the Boston Herald? Last week the feisty local tabloid couldn’t keep WGBH off the front page, gleefully whacking the public broadcaster for “[scoring] more than $80 million in obscure federal handouts over the past half-dozen years.”

But this week the Herald has left it to the Boston Globe to cover the union dustup at ‘GBH, as the station’s biggest union, Association of Employees of the Educational Foundation, Communications Workers of America, Local 1300, has rejected what management labeled its last best offer.

Today the Globe reports that the union wants to go back to the bargaining table, but it seems more likely management will declare an impasse and begin imposing the terms of its final contract offer. Then the question becomes, will the union strike?

Good question. The hardworking staff is laying plenty of eight-to-five that they don’t.

But back to our original question: Where’s the Herald’s backing for the working class heroes at ‘GBH? Shouldn’t this be right in their wheelhouse? Or have they read the comments over at the Globe, which almost unanimously blowtorch the union for its negotiating stance, and decided in this case discretion is the better part of tabloid valor.

Poor showing, fellas.

Postscript: The Herald has run two letters in two days (here and here) defending WGBH’s federal windfall. Go figure.