Tribune Publishing and The Chicago Tribune Guild, the union representing its newsroom staff, have reached a tentative settlement to furlough 160 editorial staffers for one week within the months of Could, June and July, whereas suspending discussions of longer-term furloughs till a minimum of the top of July.
The union tweeted the phrases of the tentative settlement to staffers on Tuesday, and mentioned it “fends off everlasting pay reductions and assures us that the corporate is not going to attempt additional cuts till a minimum of the top of July.”
The furloughs apply to the unionized staff with an annual base pay of $40,000 or larger. Staffers going through a furlough even have the choice of taking a voluntary buyout package deal.
Initially, administration had been pushing for three-month furloughs of journalists in sports activities and options. “We stood agency in opposition to these outrageous and presumably unlawful bullying ways,” the Tribune Guild mentioned.
It's a minimum of the third spherical of cuts for the corporate that owns the Chicago Tribune, the New York Each day Information, the Hartford Courant, the Baltimore Solar, the Orlando Sentinel and different papers. The corporate on April 21 mentioned it was requiring nonunion staff making between $40,000 and $67,000 a yr to take three weeks of furloughs in Could, June and July, and mentioned it could negotiate individually with its unionized papers. Earlier in April, CEO Terry Jimenez had ordered pay cuts of between 2 p.c and 10 p.c for higher-salaried staff, however had initially spared the lower-paid staff.
The union mentioned the corporate had agreed to make no additional pay cuts or cut back the workforce by means of the top of July.
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