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 […]
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 […]
In contract talks today, negotiators for the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild and Journal Sentinel Inc. reached tentative agreement on a number of uncontroversial provisions. During the second session of bargaining on the next contract, the two sides agreed to keep current contract language governing funeral leave, jury duty leave, employee records, byline rights and health and […]
Deciding whether to take a buyout, like the one offered by Journal Sentinel Inc., is a major financial decision. And we’re not the only newspaper staffers facing that decision. Chicago Tribune financial columnist Gail MarksJarvis recently offered these tips on the Web site of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers to anyone who […]
On the opening day of contract talks under the most challenging circumstances yet, the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild called for improving workers’ job security in a changing media environment. Negotiations on a new pact with Journal Sentinel Inc. started Tuesday, against the backdrop of the second buyout offer in less than a year, and the specter […]