Newsday Asks Employees For 'Horrible and Unprecedented' Concessions

Newsday’s union representing editorial employees has sent out a memo detailing a tentative agreement between management and the union. In it, the union essentially agrees that the company is asking for a lot, that the union did the best it could but members still hate the proposed contract, and that the new contract is “horrible and unprecedented.”

The concessions include a 10 percent pay cut for everyone(!), an increase to a 40-hour workweek, the dissolution of seniority rules, and a decrease in vacation.

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