The Milwaukee Newspaper Guild is providing three very different forums to respond to the latest grim financial news from Journal Sentinel Inc. A recent letter from Publisher Betsy Brenner said the company would seek wage freezes and raised the possibility of unpaid one-week furloughs. It’s important for all Guild-represented workers to understand that all such […]
Another round of layoffs hit Journal Sentinel Inc. employees last week, but no one from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newsroom was affected. Management has declined to confirm details of the latest downsizing. However, various sources have told Milwaukee Newspaper Guild leaders that anywhere from 20 to 50 workers were cut. It’s possible the larger number […]
Journal Sentinel Inc. has temporarily suspended contract talks with the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild. Management negotiators said the economic downturn had prompted the company to ask all departments to review their 2009 budgets, and that bargaining would not resume until that review is completed. They indicated this is a companywide bargaining freeze that also affects the […]
Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members will vote Dec. 2 to elect a new at-large Executive Board member to replace Dani McClain, who recently left her job as a metro reporter to join an advocacy organization in California. The special election will be at our regular quarterly membership meeting, at noon on the second floor of Turner […]
Russ Maki is the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s newest steward leader. The Guild’s Executive Board has appointed Maki, a night copy editor, to take charge of contract enforcement, membership, mobilizing and stewards for the copy desk, night design and graphics desks, opinions staff, national desk and downtown metro editorial assistants. He replaces restaurant critic Carol Deptolla, […]
Negotiators for the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. reached tentative agreement this week on new contract language that recognizes the importance of continued staff training as the nature of our jobs change with changing technology in an evolving newspaper industry. Under the contract provision, the company would be required to give the Guild […]
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 […]