Our new best friend has reached a tentative agreement on a contract with the Providence Newspaper Guild, whose 400-some members will be voting on it in a couple of weeks.
Ian has a detailed analysis:
The Guild’s last contract agreement, in 2003, came after four years of a divisive union-management battle that left many employees with a bitter taste following the Belo Corporation’s 1997 acquisition of the ProJo. The pain of the last battle, as I reported earlier this month, left both sides in a decidely more collaborative state of mind.