After paying big bonuses, Lee delays funding pensions
April 23, 2012
Not that there was any question before, but there should be no question whatsoever about their values now... Over the weekend, Guild members - active and retirees alike - received a letter from Lee Enterprises about their Pulitzer...
April 13, 2012
Some of our members have expressed difficulties getting their company-funded deductibles reimbursed this year. For the record, this is how its supposed to work... Employees with the low or mid-deductible plans pay a certain amount and then their company-funded...
April 10, 2012
Um.....okay, actually we didn't. What happened was - Truthout, one of our more progressive employers, sent this message to the office: Hi Shannon, Hope things are well! Just want to let you know that, starting this May,...
Mary Junck gets $500,000 bonus
March 27, 2012
According to a Lee Enterprises filing with the SEC, CEO Mary Junck has received a $500,000 bonus related to Lee's successful refinancing. Additionally, Carl Schmidt, vice president, CFO and treasurer, received a $250,000 bonus. Junck and Schmidt are the fiscal geniuses who way overpaid...
Daughter Faults Lee In Father’s Death
March 22, 2012
By Roy Malone Davenport, Iowa -- It was an emotional scene at the end of the recent annual meeting of Lee Enterprises, the newspaper chain that owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. There stood the young and very nervous Erica Douglas telling...
Federal Government Programs to Prevent Foreclosure
February 1, 2012
With many Guild members laid off and looking for work, we saw this information and thought that it might be of assistance to some. We'd also like to remind our members of the wonderful people who work at the United...
January 13, 2012
Copy of the text from a letter emailed to Jim Romenesko. Thursday Jan. 12, 2012 Dear Mr. Romenesko, St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan wrote a great column on Jan. 8, 2012, about Post-Dispatch retiree Robert Douglas, who passed away...
December 13, 2011
Lee Enterprises formally submitted the necessary paperwork in Wilmington, Deleware bankruptcy court this morning to refinance its roughly one billion dollar debt. Lee's action came after the media corporation announced last week that it would enter into Chapter...