New Guild leaders elected

Milwaukee Newspaper Guild members elected Amy Hetzner as treasurer and Mark Johnson as an at-large board member at Local 51's membership meeting Monday.

Hetzner, a Waukesha Bureau reporter, was appointed interim treasurer by the local's Executive Board last month, after longtime Treasurer Bob Helbig was named to the management position of Journal Sentinel deputy business editor. Monday's vote keeps her in the post through the end of Helbig's term Sept. 30.

Before taking over our books, Hetzner was serving her second term as an at-large board member. She's also chair of a special joint wage study committee, has been active on our Human Rights Committee and assisted our Bargaining Committee with research during recent contract talks.

Johnson, a metro general assignment reporter, was picked to fill the remainder of Hetzner's board term, through Sept. 30. He is in his third term as a steward leader, coordinating stewards, membership recruiting, mobilizing and contract enforcement for metro day-shift reporters, Wisconsin news bureaus and MKE.