Newsday Bosses Get Bonuses After Workers Accept 'Horrible' Pay Cuts

Apparently some senior managers have received “generous wage increases and bonuses” barely a year after Newsday union employees voted to accept a contract that gave everybody a 5 or 10 percent wage cut, one that the union at the time called “horrible and unprecedented.”

It’s true: until 2010, Newsday employees had never had to take a pay cut. This one is saving the company $10 million over three years.

So when Mike LaSpina, who’s president of the union that represents Newsday journalists, caught wind that bosses had seen raises, he was a little miffed.

In his note, sent to HR and labor relations vice president Tim Martin and obtained

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