The contract guarantees a minimum salary of $50,000 for new employees, cell phone and meal reimbursements, and other protections.
staff held two strikes, along with other newsrooms around the U.S. owned by Gannett, to secure a better contract.journalists, and the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, reached a labor agreement after three and a half years of negotiation and two strikes.
Villalpando said everyone in the union will get a raise under the new contract. For some employees, this will be their first raise since 2017. “No contract is going to be perfect, but in terms of a first contract, I think it's pretty much what we want,” said Cat Vasquez, ajournalist of 19 years. “You're talking about a newspaper that has such a rich and long tradition… to have been able to unionize the newsroom, I think that's a really special thing for this community”journalists have been bargaining with Gannett since they unionized in 2021 as the Austin NewsGuild under the Communications Workers of America.
In a written statement, Kristin Roberts, Gannett's media chief content officer, said the company is pleased to have an agreement in place.
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