LaborUnionNews.com's News Digest for Friday, December 6, 2024
Top Stories: Virgin Hotels switches operators amid strike; With new CBA, Nutcracker ballet will go on; Milk-Bone striker enter holidays on the picket line & dozens more articles...
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Regulators OK new Virgin casino operator as striking union members push for answers (Audio)
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas’ top two executives were granted full control of casino operations amid an intensifying labor dispute with striking workers…
‘Nutcracker’ Saved as SF Ballet Dancers’ Union Reaches Last-Minute Deal to Avert Strike
The San Francisco Ballet’s The Nutcracker will indeed premiere Friday night, as the ballet dancers’ union and the SF Ballet have struck an eleventh-hour labor deal to ensure the Sugar Plum Fairy will be dancing.

Strike at Milk-Bone Buffalo plant continues through holiday
Milk-Bone workers have been on strike for more than a month as they negotiate for affordable health insurance costs. Some 175 members of the BCTGM Local Union 36G are picketing around the clock, even as the weather turns.
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