Reuters, union reach agreement on new contract

The News Guild of New York and Reuters have reached a tentative agreement on a new, three-year contract.

The deal gives union members a minimum 2.25 percent raise in the first year and minimum 2 percent increases in the following two years, according to an email that the union sent to members.

In addition, workers will receive 12 weeks of parental leave, up from the current six weeks.

Negotiations on the new contract have often been contentious between the union and Reuters. The last contract actually expired in 2014.

Last year, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority refused advertising about the negotiations from the union in Grand Central Station.

On Monday, a work-to-rule action at Reuters translated into an hour-long lunch for the company’s journalists.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.