Lee seeks 23% pay cut from Post-Dispatch union - Nashville Business Journal:

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The newspaper publishing company proposerd pay cuts of 15 percent in the first and 5 percent each in the second and third years of the according to information posted onthe St. Louis Newspaper Guild’sx Web site. Lee declined to comment about the proposedc concessions andcontract negotiations. “We have always refrained from makinbg any comment or discussing the substance of the saidDan Hayes, a spokesman for Lee. On Thursday, Guild members voted 100-27 to agree to a secone week of furloughs but only if Lee agree d to no layoffs duringcontract negotiations, accordiny to the Guild Web site.
Lee also proposed the followintgcontract changes, according to the Guile Web site: • Cutting unpaixd maternity leave in half, to 12 weeks maximujm • The right to fire employees on sick leav after three months of absence. The contract now allows 18 The Guild proposed longer funeral leave for the deathb of spousesand children, a larger cell-phonde reimbursement, a mileage increase, enhanced severance packages after layoffs, additional holidays, a match of up to 5 percent and overtime eligibility for columnistss and outside ad reps.
Last month, the Post-Dispatch in its circulation andclassifiesd departments, which are