The Baltimore Sun Guild has accepted a three-year extension with Tribune Publishing, keeping in place step-increase raises for young journalists, merit raises and other protections from the newsroom’s previous contract.
And there’s still a chance for the across-the-board raise that Sun journalists have been publicly pushing for since the spring.
Under the terms of the agreement, a pay increase for The Sun‘s union members, capped at 3 percent, is tied to the ongoing negotiations with the Chesapeake News Guild, a union representing The Capital, The Carroll County Times and community journalists in Baltimore Sun Media Group.
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