During the Saturday morning session of The Newpaper Guild’s Midwest District Council meeting, TNG Secretary-Treasurer Bernie Lunzer also talked about problems locals are facing in such places as San Jose, a former Knight Ridder paper, where everything has been put on the board by the paper’s new owner Dean Singleton. Wages, pension and even jurisdiction. […]
9:30 a.m. MST. Welcome to the Midwest District Council meeting of The Newpaper Guild. Denver. Sunny. 50s and out of Milwaukee just in time to beat that heavy wet stuff that hit all of you. Representatives from Denver, Peoria, Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Kenosha, Sheboygan and Milwaukee are in the first session this […]
If you worked election night, control of Congress and the Wisconsin Senate weren’t the only turnarounds you needed to think about. The Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s contract calls for a 10-hour turnaround between shifts. For many Journal Sentinel newsroom workers, that could mean extra money for working late Tuesday and coming back Wednesday morning. Whenever you […]
Tune in to the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild blog Friday, Saturday and Sunday for updates from the Midwest District Council meeting in Denver. Local 51 President Jennie Tunkieicz and First Vice President Jerry Ziegler will be attending. We’ll give you updates as the meeting progresses. The agenda includes a morning session by the district attorney’s office […]
Greg Pearson has been appointed as a Milwaukee Newspaper Guild steward leader, completing a switch with Jerry Ziegler. Local 51 members previously elected Ziegler as 1st vice president, the position Pearson held for the last three years. The local’s Executive Board then named Pearson to the steward leader job that had been held by Ziegler, […]
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 […]
Veteran union leader Dave Kirner has been named to lead the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s bargaining committee in negotiations on recent Journal Communications retirement changes. Kirner, a photo technician, is a Guild board member and former president, as well as a former leader of our sister Communications Workers of America local in the composing room. He […]