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December 7, 2006 at 2:07pm

D&C union votes

The D&C's union has overwhelmingly voted down a contract offer that the paper's management described as its "firm, final and best."The Newspaper Guild of Rochester rejected the contract by a 51 to 4 vote on Friday.What happens next? This is where things could get interesting. When the company announced the "final" offer a month ago, the union was taken a bit by surprise since, they said, talks had been improving. But the "firm, final and best" language paves the way for Gannett to declare an impasse and impose the contract.In a one-page communiqué to its membership dated Monday, union leadership

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