Monterey Herald Guild members approved a contract with the employer Wednesday that gives workers one extra paid day off a year, keeps a cap on health care benefits, and raises cell phone reimbursement to $60 monthly.
“We would have liked a raise but we are glad to have finally reached an agreement after more than a year of hard work by Guild members,” Unit Chair Phillip Molnar said.
![Monterey Herald Guild members approved a new contract on Wednesday. Pictured from left: Ana Ceballos, David Royal, Dennis Taylor, James Herrera, Tommy Wright, Phil Molnar (Unit Chair), Julie Reynolds, and Claudia Melendez.](https://i1.wp.com/mediaworkers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Herald-Guild.jpg?resize=300%2C208)
Members’ base pay has been frozen for more than four years.
During that time, employees were asked to take two week-long, unpaid furloughs — a loss of roughly 4 percent of take-home pay. In the three years before that, base pay increased by 1 percent annually, but was offset by two week-long unpaid furloughs and an increase in the employee share of medical premiums.
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