Sara Martinez is the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s new human rights coordinator. The Guild’s Executive Board this week named Martinez, a Journal Sentinel page designer, to replace JS Online producer Jenn Amur, who was previously elected 1st vice president. Board members also decided to keep the same jurisdictions for the three steward leaders reappointed in October. […]
Two of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s most experienced leaders are taking on new responsibilities. Greg Pearson, a former Local 51 president who was also our longest-serving grievance vice president, has been named postings and exclusions coordinator. Pearson, a copy editor, succeeds former metro reporter Larry Sandler, who left the Journal Sentinel staff in a buyout. […]
Three new officers will join the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild leadership team on Monday. The local’s members have elected online producer Jenn Amur as 1st vice president, in charge of contract enforcement; page designer Zeina Makky as 2nd vice president, in charge of membership and mobilizing; and business reporter Tom Content as secretary. Amur has been […]
Five newsroom employees are leaving the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the latest round of voluntary buyouts. It’s the second such staffing cut this year, following an earlier buyout in which three newsroom employees departed. All eight workers were represented by the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild, and they came from six different newsroom departments. But because the […]
Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members Wednesday ratified a new three-year contract with Journal Sentinel Inc. by a vote of 46-23. It was the closest vote on a contract in our local’s history. Only the margin of approval on the 2009 wage cut — which at the time was an interim agreement rather than part of a […]
Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members will vote Wednesday on a proposed new three-year contract with Journal Sentinel Inc. The tentative agreement includes significant concessions in job security, wage structure and health care. Those concessions, however, are not as great as the givebacks management negotiators originally sought. Our bargaining team has told members that we believe this […]
Jenn Amur has been named to the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s Executive Board. Current board members picked Amur, a JSOnline producer, to fill Journal Sentinel copy editor John Schumacher’s seat as an at-large board member. Schumacher has been appointed treasurer, to replace former deputy business editor Bob Helbig, who left in last fall’s buyout but agreed […]
John Schumacher is on track to become the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s next treasurer. The Guild’s Executive Board has picked Schumacher, a Journal Sentinel copy editor, to succeed Bob Helbig in the treasurer’s post, effective Feb. 1. Helbig, a former deputy business editor, took a buyout last fall but remained a Guild member and agreed to […]
Greg Pearson is back in the leadership ranks of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild. The Guild’s Executive Board has named Pearson, the local’s former president, as a steward leader. Pearson, a Journal Sentinel copy editor who served most recently as a steward, now oversees stewards, contract enforcement, membership and mobilizing for the sports, features/entertainment and opinions […]
A new round of buyouts and involuntary downsizing has eliminated six jobs in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newsroom, including five represented by the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild. Journal Sentinel Inc. management has not announced the total number of positions eliminated throughout all newspaper departments, but some sources indicate it could be more than two dozen. The […]