ProJo Approves New Contract
The 250 guild-covered advertising and editorial employees at the Providence Journal yesterday approved a new three-year contract that increases the cost of health care and freezes pay, albeit temporarily, the Journal reported.
The newspaper is still picking up 80 percent of the cost of employee health care premiums (down from 85 percent in the last contract), but the sticker prices of some healthcare services will rise.
The pay freeze situation is a bit more complicated: in May 2009, all non-union employees working for the Providence Journal and parent company A.H.
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