Morning Star journalists win pay deal

The threatened strike ( see here ) by journalists on the Morning Star has been called off. The dispute was settled after management offered the National Union of Journalists' chapel members a two-year deal. They will get a rise of £900 now, and next year a rise based on the retail price index plus a sum measured against the rate of inflation over the course of the 12 months to be no less than 1% and no more than 4%. Special pay rates for working unsocial hours will also be paid, with time-and-a-quarter for Sundays and time-and-a-half off in lieu for bank holidays. The deal has yet to be ratified by the management committee of the paper's owners, the People's Press Printing Society , though that is thought to be a formality.