On Friday FTVLive told you that Sinclair was handing out $1000 bonus checks to celebrate the huge tax cuts being offered to big corporations. 

Sinclair used the bonus as a way to help prop up their BFF Donald Trump and thank him for helping make the rich, even richer. 

But while the company was spreading their Christmas cheer, not everyone got a slice of the pie. 

Union employees at KOMO in Seattle are unlikely to get that bonus because of forthcoming union negotiations.

Members of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents on-air reporters, have an expired contract.

Crosscut says that according to one employee, who requested anonymity to speak about internal affairs, KOMO’s HR has told employees they will not get the bonus.

It’s a kick in the gut to KOMO staff who are already frustrated with Sinclair’s leadership. The employee called it “scrooge revisited.”

“To say, everybody’s valuable in the company except these people because they’re in a union negotiation seems disingenuous,” the employee said.

The station’s photographers recently voted, 11-10, to accept a new contract and will, therefore, receive the bonus, according to their union representative Dave Twedell.

The significance of the parenthetical was not lost on KOMO staff. KOMO’s HR confirmed to employees that, yes, that would mean they were not eligible for the bonus, according to the employee. It is also unlikely that employees with KATU in Portland will receive the bonus as they are also in union negotiations. 

In an email to reporters, Executive Director of SAG-AFTRA Shellea Allen said Sinclair was “arbitrarily holding a $1,000 bonus from bargaining unit employees. We do not agree with this decision and have been in contact with management at KOMO to make that clear.”