Daily News Employees Ratify 3-Year Contract
Newsroom employees of the Daily News of Los Angeles averted a strike Wednesday by approving a three-year contract that would raise salaries for most editorial workers, but not by as much as their union had hoped.
Members of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild voted 125 to 25 to ratify the contract offered last week by the management of the Woodland Hills-based newspaper after 1 1/2 years of negotiations. Union members last month had authorized a strike if the contract was rejected.
The contract provides raises for more than 70% of editorial workers, said Jim Smith, executive officer of the guild.
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