The news came on Wednesday, and it had a familiar ring to it: Journal Sentinel Inc. to offer a “voluntary separation program” to its employees. That would be a buyout package for volunteers followed by involuntary layoffs if enough people don’t agree to leave. We went through this in the fall, and this time the […]
Former Guild President Jack Norman will be one of three panelists participating in a forum discussion on “An Economy That’s Not Working for Us” sponsored by the Milwaukee Area Labor Council. The forum will be held at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 2, at Serb Memorial Hall, 5105 W. Oklahoma Ave. The forum is open to […]
Journal Sentinel Inc. announced a new online ethics and harassment training program today. As with similar ethics code efforts in the past, it continues to be the Guild’s position that the terms and conditions of employment for bargaining-unit employees, including ethics standards, are governed by the collective bargaining agreement and past practice. We have negotiated […]
Bernie Lunzer, secretary-treasurer of The Newspaper Guild and candidate for president of our international union, is scheduled to be in Milwaukee on Monday afternoon. He plans to tour the Journal Sentinel’s downtown newsroom to meet and talk with JS staffers. Lunzer is running against international Guild President Linda Foley in the first contested election for […]
Vince Butler, one of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s most experienced leaders, is back in a senior role. The local’s Executive Board has appointed Butler as a steward leader, overseeing contract enforcement, membership and mobilizing for the sports, JS Online and News Information Center staffs. He will fill the term of Jeff Maillet, who stepped down, […]
Journal Sentinel Inc. soon will be notifying more than 35 current employees who will be affected by a recent arbitration ruling. The Milwaukee Newspaper Guild prevailed in an arbitration involving changes that the company made to the pension plan in 2006. In the spring of that year, the company announced that most employees on the […]
The Milwaukee Newspaper Guild has prevailed in an arbitration stemming from the grievance filed against Journal Sentinel Inc. over changes management made to the pension plan in 2006. In a decision released Thursday, arbitrator Jay Grenig agreed with the Guild’s argument that the plan changes violated Article 9, Section 1, of our contract because certain […]
Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members have elected two new Executive Board members and approved a limited-time offer for prospective union members. At the local’s January membership meeting, members elected day copy editor Karen Samelson as secretary and metro reporter Kawanza Newson to an at-large board seat. Samelson, our Human Rights Committee chair, will fill the term […]
Nearly everyone covered by the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild contract can count on higher wages in the year ahead. Here are the wage and differential increases that take effect Dec. 30: Across-the-board raise: All employees who were on the payroll Oct. 1 or earlier will receive a 1.5% raise, unless they receive a larger raise because […]
Holiday paychecks can be a little more festive if you file for all the extra pay that’s coming to you. If you’re working over the holidays, here’s what you’re entitled to under the Guild contract: If you work on the actual holiday (Dec. 25 or Jan. 1 in this case): You get overtime for your […]