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Providence Newspaper Guild OKs contract
Members of the Providence Newspaper Guild voted 238 to 15 today to approve an eight-year contract offer from the Providence Journal, affirming the union's continuing vitality after a failed union-busting effort by management.
The new contract, to be in effect through December 2007, came after unprecedented activism by Guild members persuaded the Journal to abandon its campaign to crush the union, which represents 420 workers from editors to janitors.
Congratulations for the Guild members, especially the newsroom employees, for their long-overdue contract.
December 19, 2003 at 06:25 PM in Media | Permalink
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Thanks, JD!
We'll all be getting retro checks for four years of raises and a signing bonus (most will be between $6k and $10k) plus free parking and better pension, life insurance and 401k plans. We hold the line at 15% of health coverage costs.
Ian Donnis of the Providence Phoenix wrote about the endgame yesterday (Peace breaks out at the ProJo).
He quotes from an email I sent when he asked for a comment:
"I hope this helps reverse a trend in the newspaper industry of taking whatever is offered as ‘the best we can get.’ " Sheila Lennon, the paper’s features and interactive producer, writes in an e-mail. "It took four years, but this contract is a lot better than the company’s earlier ‘take it or leave it’ offers . . . We never damaged the Journal, we just used the law to hold them to the same standards they require of the rest of Rhode Island’s companies."
I hope our experience makes it easier for the next bunch to achieve a fair contract quickly. It's exhaustively documented at the Guild site.
Posted by: Sheila Lennon at Dec 19, 2003 8:50:56 PM
