By HEATHER APPEL
HERALD NEWS

ELMWOOD PARK -- An overwhelming majority of the workers at the Marcal Paper Mills were willing to accept a reduction in benefits and overtime in order to keep their jobs.

United Steelworkers' 550 members at the manufacturing and recycling plant ratified a new collective bargaining agreement Monday by a 376–131 vote. The union, whose members make up the majority of the 900 workers at the plant, spent weeks negotiating a new contract with NexBank, the Texas bank that's buying the bankrupt company.

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