The contract was ratified by 67 per cent of newspaper carriers, 75 per cent of the pressmen and 91 per cent of the inside workers, including journalists.
(Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union spokesperson Mary Agnes) Welch said the workers will get pay raises of two per cent per year for three years and 1.5 per cent in the fourth year of a four-year, nine-month contract.
The strike lasted 16 days. Welch said to get a better deal would have required staying out at least a month, which could have crippled the paper.