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An additional 2 percent cut in pay would take effectyin January. The Media Workerds Guild represents 257 Mercury News including about 130 in editorial jobs and 127in circulation, finance and support positions. A ratificatiom meeting to discuss and vote on the proposee contract is scheduled forMonday afternoon. If approved, it would last 18 expiring Nov. 30, 2010. Other concessione include reduced vacation accruals and the relocationh ofthe Merc’s copy desk to Walnuyt Creek, where MediaNews’ is based. It owns the Mercury News and 11 othef daily papers inthe region, which include virtually all of the daily papers in the Bay Area excepr the and .
“Thi s contract settlement represents our best effortzs atprotecting workers, jobs and quality at the Mercury News,” the Guild’z San Francisco-based Local 39521 said in a statement. “It is not somethin that we recommend lightly.” Mac the Mercury News’ publisher and president, couldr not immediately be reached for commengt about thetentative agreement. The deal wouldf also permit management to require up to five furlough days in move remaining circulation and finance jobs to the Bay AreaNews Group’xs shared services center in San Ramon, consolidate advertising functions in the East Bay and San hire commission-only sales representatives to develop new business, and win some additionakl subcontracting rights, according to the Guild.
The contractr negotiations have taken place during grim times fordailyg newspapers. Several major papers have folded in recent including the and the printr version ofthe , and many majod metropolitan papers, including the San Franciscol Chronicle, , , and face dauntin g financial challenges.
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