In contract talks today, negotiators for the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. reached tentative agreement on a number of uncontroversial provisions. During the second session of bargaining on the next contract, the two sides agreed to keep current contract language governing funeral leave, jury duty leave, employee records, byline rights and health and […]

Deciding whether to take a buyout, like the one offered by Journal Sentinel Inc., is a major financial decision. And we’re not the only newspaper staffers facing that decision. Chicago Tribune financial columnist Gail MarksJarvis recently offered these tips on the Web site of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to anyone who […]

On the opening day of contract talks under the most challenging circumstances yet, the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild called for improving workers’ job security in a changing media environment. Negotiations on a new pact with Journal Sentinel Inc. started Tuesday, against the backdrop of the second buyout offer in less than a year, and the specter […]

The news came on Wednesday, and it had a familiar ring to it: Journal Sentinel Inc. to offer a “voluntary separation program” to its employees. That would be a buyout package for volunteers followed by involuntary layoffs if enough people don’t agree to leave. We went through this in the fall, and this time the […]