By: (AP) Members of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild voted Sunday to approve a labor contract with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The five-year package covers about 600 editorial, advertising, circulation and support workers at the newspaper.
The vote was 245-108. The union represents about 600 Post-Dispatch employees.
Guild leaders gave the contract tentative approval May 24, after guild members in February rejected a proposed three-year contract, citing concerns about insurance costs and job security.
Under the approved plan, wages would increase 5% or 6% in the first year, depending on employees' pay classification. Annual increases would decrease each of the next four years, ending with 2.5% in the final year.
Workers would pay 15% of their insurance premiums in the contract's first year. Eventually, they would pay 25%.
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