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announced it would seek $ 2.2 million on behalf of dozens of newsroom employees who were mistreated by McCaw. McCaw would be ordered to pay $ 936,000 to “make employees whole” for illegally hiring nonunion temporary workers, $ 705,000 in back pay for two employees whom she illegally laid off or
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