Negotiators agreed Thursday to keep two job security provisions unchanged in the next contract between the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. But the deal does not affect the most crucial job security issue on the table: severance and notice pay during an economic downsizing. That question remains to be negotiated. One of Thursday’s […]

Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members chose three new Executive Board members Monday in the first contested board election in several years. The membership also handed full terms to four officers who had stepped up to new responsibilities last month after former President Amy Rinard left the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in the recent buyout. They are Greg […]

All Journal Sentinel newsroom employees could receive merit raises on the same date, under a tentative agreement last week. Negotiators for the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. reached that deal, as well as agreements on diversity and ethics provisions, during contract talks Wednesday through Friday. Under the current contract, members of our bargaining […]

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has laid off a part-time Racine County Bureau employee, in an aftershock from the newspaper’s downsizing. No newsroom employees were included in the group of 22 workers laid off in late August. That was thought to be the end of a wave of downsizing that saw 24 newsroom employees take voluntary […]