Philly Guild takes 2% pay cut, 10 unpaid days under tentative pact

Philadelphia Guild members will take a 2 percent pay cut, 10 days of unpaid furloughs a year, eliminate shift differentials and work 40 instead of 37.5 hours a week under the tentative agreement reached with the Philadelphia newspapers.

New owners PN Purchaser Co., with the newspapers in bankruptcy, has agreed to eliminate a two-tier wage system.

Click on the headline for Guild president Dan Gross' email to Guild members, as posted on Poynter.org.