Another 34 employees of The Sacramento Bee will lose their jobs in an uncoming round of layoffs, after a vote today by the newspaper's union, the Newspaper Guild.

The question put to the guild's members asked if they would be willing to take pay cuts of either three or six percent, depending on salary. It also forced employees to accept one unpaid week off per year. Two-thirds of the guild's voting members voted to accept the company's plan, after company management made it clear that an additional 19 guild-covered positions would be lost if there was a "no" vote.

The 34 positions already targeted were not going to be saved no matter what the outcome of the vote.

According to the Associated Press, The Bee eliminated 86 positions last summer as part of a 10 percent cut affecting all McClatchy papers. Another 87 employees took buyouts in September, among them 23 editorial employees.

The guild represents about 270 of the paper's 1120 employees. As recently as 1999, the paper had more than 2000 employees.

Guild members at two other papers owned by McClatchy, the Modesto and Fresno Bees, will vote on a similar pay-cut package next week.