Dow Jones & Company and its main labor union have moved close to agreement on a contract for reporters and other employees at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, union officials said yesterday. The board of the union, the Independent Association of Publishers? Employees, is scheduled to meet tomorrow and may be ready then to endorse a deal and schedule a vote by the membership, the officials said. The union represents about 2,000 Dow Jones employees, who have been without a contract since January. They include most of the reporters and copy editors at The Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, as well as workers at various Dow Jones properties in a number of other fields, like technology and finance.
See "Union Says Contract Is Near at Dow Jones", Richard Perez-Pena, The New York Times, September 13, 2007