Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
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Reported by Star-Bulletin staff & wire

Monday, August 26, 1996

Isle newspaper unions
ratify 4-year contract

Members of six unions at Honolulu's two daily newspapers have voted overwhelmingly to accept a four-year contract that will raise their pay 12 percent by June 1999 in increments of 2.9 to 3 percent a year. The latest pact expires in June 2000.

The agreement, ratified yesterday, raises top-scale staffers' wages to $1,000 a week, from $971.90, effective from June 13, when the old pact expired. In the fourth year, top-scale employees will be getting $1,088.90 a week.

Covered are about 700 of the employees of the Star-Bulletin, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Hawaii Newspaper Agency, which handles advertising sales, production and distribution for the two newspapers.


HawTel's Huff to move
to post with parent GTE

Carol Huff, director of public affairs at GTE Hawaiian Tel since January 1990, today was named to a national position with the company's parent, GTE Corp.

Huff was named director of community relations, a position at GTE headquarters in Stamford, Conn.

Before moving to Hawaii, Huff worked five years at a GTE public affairs position in Washington, D.C.

Huff will report to Glenn Gilbert, who was just hired from the advertising industry to be GTE's national vice president of public affairs and communications, also in Stamford.

A company spokesman in Hawaii, Calvin Tadaki, said a replacement for the Honolulu post has not been named.


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