How many more multi-million-dollar lawsuits can CNN afford to lose?

Last week they settled with Covington Catholic High Schooler Nick Sandmann. Now, Cynthia Littleton reports in Variety,

CNN has agreed to pay $76 million to settle a back pay case involving union workers that marks the largest “monetary remedy” in the 85-year history of National Labor Relations Board.

The dispute began in 2003 when CNN fired a group of unionized subcontractors working as video technicians and in other technical and support roles.

The cabler then hired new, non-union employees for most of the same functions. That sparked a trail of litigation with National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians and Communications Workers of America, that has been winding through federal adjudication for more than a decade. The NLRB is the federal agency designed to protect the rights of employees to organize in the workplace.

The settlement will be spread among more than 300 people.

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