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CBS News Writers Ratify New Contract

Despite layoffs and cutbacks in the broadcast news business, CBS News writers are getting a slight bump in pay. Members of the Writers Guild of America overwhelmingly ratified a new three-year contract that provides 2% annual increase in pay to CBS News writers working in television and radio on local and national levels in New York, Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles.

Guild members voted 83% in favor of the contract, which in addition to the pay raises, for the first time makes CBS News employees eligible to join the guild's pension fund and provides negotiated minimum pay levels for writer-producers. CBS writers had been working without a contract since April.

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