While CNN sits at the bottom of the cable news ratings, they have set a record, although not sure they will be proud of it.

The struggling cable news net has agreed to pay a $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.

It started in 2003, when CNN fired a group of unionized subcontractors working as video technicians and in other technical and support roles. Then CNN went out and hired non-union employees to fill many of the jobs.

The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians and Communications Workers of America, sued CNN and it 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. The NLRB noted that $76 million is more than what it brings in during a typical year from back pay enforcement.

“After more than a decade of litigation, negotiation and appeals we are pleased to have resolved a longstanding legal matter,” a CNN rep said.

H/T Variety