Members of the National Union of Journalists voted in favour of the deal yesterday and called off a planned three-day strike that was scheduled to start today.
Express journalists are keen to discuss in-house working as they see it as an opportunity to improve job security and increase pay and benefits. Management at the Express titles, including the Daily Express and Daily Star, has been outsourcing some of the papers' editorial work over the past few years.
The pay rise at the Richard Desmond owned papers will be back dated to January 1, however, the NUJ had originally rejected this offer back in October last year.
The deal comes after Express journalists held a 24-hour strike earlier this month, picketing outside the newspapers' parent company Northern & Shell. Two more strikes were planned for April 11 and 18, however both were cancelled.
The NUJ said that the strike on April 4 was the first full day of strike action taken by journalists at a major national newspaper since 1990.
At the time, NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear said: "This strike is about low pay and broken promises. These papers, now more than ever, need properly resourced journalism, yet all the company has to offer is cutbacks and miserly pay."
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