Kennebec Journal Inks New Contract With Newsroom, Advertising, Finance
The Kennebec Journal in Maine and the union representing 32 employees at the newspaper have signed a contract that gives those employees a five percent raise but comes with significant concessions, Al Diamon at DownEast reports.
The five percent raise goes into effect the first year, but pay is frozen after that.
It also allows the company to pay less for employee health insurance, and includes some changes regarding severance pay and layoffs. (More details here.)
The paper’s owner, MaineToday Media, also owns the Portland Press Herald, a much larger paper, where MTM is said to be asking for many of the same cuts and givebacks as it received here at the KJ.
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