The Baltimore Sun’s newsroom union agreed to permanent pay cuts for employees making $67,000 per year or more and to furloughs, two cost-cutting measures proposed by Tribune Publishing under the threat of layoffs, the union said.
The Baltimore Sun Guild, the newspaper’s unit within the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, said management was threatening to lay off five newsroom staffers next week.
“Our members were willing to make sacrifices in these troubling times to save their colleagues’ jobs,” the union said, later adding, “We care too much about our community and each other to let that happen right now.”
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