Journal Sentinel newsroom employees would be able to appeal involuntary transfers to different shifts under a tentative agreement reached last week. During contract talks Thursday and Friday, negotiators for the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. agreed that staffers who are required to change shifts should have the opportunity to apply for other newsroom […]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s newsroom staff accounted for 24 of the 46 Journal Sentinel Inc. employees who took voluntary buyouts this month, but none of the 22 staffers laid off last week came from the newsroom or from other union-represented positions. With those actions, Journal Sentinel managers have told Milwaukee Newspaper Guild representatives that the […]

Milwaukee Newspaper Guild President Amy Rinard has decided to leave the Journal Sentinel in the current round of buyouts, turning the local’s top position over to 1st Vice President Greg Pearson. Pearson will fill out the remainder of Rinard’s term, which runs through Sept. 30. He plans to run for a full one-year term as […]

Friday was the deadline for Journal Sentinel Inc. employees to apply for the buyout. At this point, the company has not said when, or if, it will announce how many of our co-workers took the buyout, who they were, whether their numbers were sufficient to avoid involuntary cuts or what the target number was for […]

Negotiators for the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. have reached tentative agreement on several contract provisions during three days of bargaining this week. The agreed-upon language would: Expand our rights to be notified of corrections and of personal attacks. As with letters to the editor and corrections published in the Journal Sentinel, employees […]