Milwaukee Newspaper Guild representatives are continuing to meet with Journal Sentinel Inc. management about our grievance over changes to the pension plan. A Guild committee of Dave Kirner, Jerry Ziegler and Greg Pearson met Sept. 20 with James Spangler, vice president/human resources, to continue discussions. The Guild’s argument has two basic points: 1) These changes […]

Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members elected Jerry Ziegler as 1st Vice President on Monday. Ziegler, an asst. copy desk chief, now becomes the local’s chief contract enforcement officer. He succeeds day copy editor Greg Pearson, who served a record three years as our grievance chair. Pearson is seeking appointment to Ziegler’s former position as a steward […]

The Newspaper Guild is rallying support nationwide for two San Francisco sportswriters facing jail for refusing to reveal their confidential sources. Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams of the San Francisco Chronicle drew nationwide attention to baseball’s steroid scandal by publishing grand jury testimony that had been leaked to them. Now federal prosecutors are demanding they […]

The Milwaukee Newspaper Guild has filed a grievance and is continuing to work on a case involving vacation payout. The case in question involves the Transitional Vacation Accounts (TVAs), which affect employees hired since the merger. Journal Sentinel Inc. management wanted those people to be placed on an earn-as-you-go vacation system. Thus, those workers no […]