The Nation - News from March 30, 1987

Union members at Seattle’s two major daily newspapers voted to accept a contract after being told Teamsters who drive newspaper delivery trucks might not honor their picket lines. Jack Hopkins, president of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild local, said the vote was 469 to 153. The ratification avoided what would have been the city’s first newspaper strike in 34 years. The contract of the guild’s 900 members with the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer includes a performance-pay plan, a 2% across-the-board wage increase for reporters and photographers and a ratification bonus.