MONTAUK, LONG ISLAND - Heath Freeman, head of Alden Global Capital, owner of the second largest newspaper chain in the country including our hometown newspaper,  the New York Daily News, lives in a swanky mansion in the ritzy Hamptons shore town of Montauk. 

Meanwhile some of Daily News journalists earn so little they qualify for low-income housing.

The Daily News Union brought its fight to Freeman’s doorstep, taking their protests on the road, traveling more than four hours to let his neighbors know know their town’s most notorious resident is a union buster, a destroyer of newspapers and someone who refuses to pay his workers a living wage. 

“Heath Freeman basically strip-mined the Daily News to finance his ego-driven Montauk resort adventure,” said Graham Rayman, criminal justice reporter for the Daily News and a member of the union’s bargaining team. “While he hobnobs with the glitterati on the East End, the Daily News staff grind along without a raise in a decade but still somehow manage to put out a highly competitive paper. Freeman could care less about the quality of the product. If he did, he wouldn't be offering a $55,000 starting salary and no ongoing 401K match in the most expensive places to live in the country."