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New Post-Dispatch Contract Proposal Drops 'Open Shop'

These billboards will soon come down. (KWMU photo)
These billboards will soon come down. (KWMU photo)

By Tom Weber, KWMU

St. Louis, MO – The newest contract proposal from the Post-Dispatch to about 600 of its union workers drops a so-called "open shop" clause from the deal. That means affected employees would still have to pay union dues.

More meetings are planned to discuss the three-year deal. Union president and Post-Dispatch reporter Tim O'Neill said in an article in the paper that the open shop move will allow the union to remove billboards and radio ads that accuse the paper of union-busting.

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