The Southern Illinoisan newsroom votes to join UMG

The Southern Illinoisan newsroom votes to join UMG

Newsroom employees of The Southern Illinoisan voted unanimously Thursday to join the United Media Guild. The 12-0 vote means the eligible employees will be represented by the UMG as it bargains for its first labor contract with the newspaper's owner,...

Southern Illinoisan moves to join UMG

The United Media Guild welcomes the journalists of the Southern Illinoisan, who formerly requested representation from the local Friday. The newsroom at the Southern will join another Lee Enterprises newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in the UMG. Here is the...

Lee Enterprises-owned Casper Star-Tribune votes in the Guild

Congratulations are in order for the newsroom of the Casper Star-Tribune, an award-winning newspaper in the Lee Enterprises chain. Journalists there voted overwhelmingly Feb. 27 to join the Denver News Guild. The United Media Guild represents employees at the St....

Lee Enterprises loses revenue, cut staff, rewards top executives

As you would expect, Lee Enterprises executive chairman Mary Junck offered optimistic spin on the state of the company Wednesday at its annual shareholders meeting. "We have proven ourselves to be flexible and nimble at rethinking, repositioning and redeveloping all...

Lee Enterprises newspaper in Wyoming votes to unionize

The United Media Guild salutes employees of the Casper Star-Tribune for seeking representation from the NewsGuild. The Star-Tribune has absorbed staff cut after staff cut ordered by its parent company, Lee Enterprises. Journalists realized they needed to gain a strong...

Lee Enterprises will plunder your Medical Retirement Account

Say, remember when we alerted our Post-Dispatch members about money they might have sitting in Medical Retirement Accounts? [caption id="attachment_2213" align="alignright" width="212"] Astrid Garcia[/caption] Never mind. Rather than merely hope that people forgot about those MRAs and never accessed them,...

About those Medical Retirement Accounts at the Post-Dispatch

The United Media Guild asked our benefits consultant, Jack Alheim, to explain the Medical Retirement Account that many of our members have gained through their insurance at the Post-Dispatch. Here is his disclaimer, then his report: Following is a summary...