The Salt Lake Tribune’s management and the union that represents its employees have negotiated the first labor contract in the newspaper’s 155-year history.

Members of the Salt Lake News Guild — which includes employees of The Tribune, and the Tribune-owned Times-Independent of Moab and the Southern Utah Tribune — ratified the two-year agreement, and The Tribune’s Board of Directors voted to approve the contract. Both votes were unanimous.

Guild members and Lauren Gustus, The Tribune’s executive editor and CEO, officially signed the contract Monday.

In a joint statement released Monday , management and the Guild said the collective bargaining agreement came about through “a respectful and thoughtful bargaining process.”

The joint statement, which expressed gratitude “to all employees

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