Dave Umhoefer is the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s new health and safety coordinator. The local’s Executive Board has named Umhoefer, a Politifact Wisconsin reporter, to deal with any concerns about ergonomics, air quality or other health and safety issues affecting union-represented workers in the Journal Sentinel’s downtown newsroom and Wisconsin bureaus. He fills a post that […]

In voting Tuesday, Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members approved a package of vacation changes, 55 to 5. Guild leaders and Journal Sentinel Inc. management representatives expect to sign the agreement within the next few days, retroactive to Jan. 1. As an immediate result, members of our bargaining unit will be able to take two key changes […]

Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members will vote Tuesday on a package of vacation changes proposed by Journal Sentinel management. We’ll hold our quarterly membership meeting the same day. Most of the proposed changes are improvements — two extra days off each year for full-timers; three more months to use our vacation; and restoration of the fifth […]