ABC, WGAE Reach Tentative Agreement

ABC News employees will vote Dec. 13 whether to ratify a tentative contract reached Nov. 29 between the network and the Writers Guild of America East.

The 250 ABC News writers, producers, editors, graphic artists and desk assistants covered under the contract in New York and Washington, D.C., have been working without a contract since Jan. 31, 2005.

The new contract, which is expected to be ratified, will run through Feb. 1, 2010. It calls for a 3.5% annual raise effective immediately as well as a $3,700 bonus for each full-time employee (and prorated for others) not retroactively but instead with the WGA's agreement to drop a pending National Labor Relations Board complaint.

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