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• Employers finding way around OSHA’s tougher stance
  December 29, 2008. Las Vegas Sun
  No one saw Michael Taylor fall to his death at the Cosmopolitan construction site nearly a year ago.
  
  
• Union leaders bring children into Disney protest
  December 19, 2008. Orange County Register
  ANAHEIM--The union of Disneyland Resort hotel workers battling the entertainment giant over stalled contract negotiations staged another protest Thursday night – this time trying to win sympathies by bringing in children.
  
  
• Happy holiday for laundry workers - back wages
  December 19, 2008. San Francisco Chronicle
  Five years after filing suit against her employer for failing to pay wages mandated by Hayward's living wage law, a former laundry worker in San Leandro opened an envelope Thursday and pulled out a check for $17,847.33 in back wages and interest.
  
  
• University Inn workers OK new contract raising pay $2 per hour over three years
  December 18, 2008. Santa Cruz Sentinel
  Workers at the University Inn & Conference Center have approved a contract that will raise their pay $2 an hour over three years.
  
  
• iefs: Union to picket Travelodge
  December 18, 2008. Monterey Herald
  The union representing Monterey Bay's hotel workers plans to picket the Monterey Bay Travelodge from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. today to mark the fourth year of its boycott with the AFL-CIO against the hotel.
  
  
• Slump hits staff at Atlantic City hotels, casinos
  December 18, 2008. Philadelphia Inquirer
  ATLANTIC CITY - Anandi Patel was grateful for the free winter coat and ShopRite gift cards that she was given yesterday at a workshop for laid-off casino workers.
  
  
• UAW busting, Southern style
  December 18, 2008. Los Angeles Times
  The foreign nonunion auto companies located in the South have a plan to reduce wages and benefits at their factories in the United States. And to do it, they need to destroy the United Auto Workers.
  
  
• Manchester Grand Hyatt Boycott Very Effective
  December 16, 2008. Beyond Chron
  In Monday’s edition of the San Diego Business Journal, reporter Connie Lewis revealed that the ongoing boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt by gay activists and labor groups has cost the hotel $2,400,000 in canceled meetings and conventions.
  
  
• Monday Morning Puck Shot
  December 15, 2008. The Toronto Sun
  Canadians thrown out of work by the out-sourcing of hockey equipment manufacturing to countries such as India and China are turning up the heat.
  
  
• Not All Unions Cheery About Garment Center Rezoning
  December 12, 2008. The New York Observer
  Earlier this week we wrote about a deal between a key group of unions, UNITE HERE, and the Bloomberg administration that would help clear the path for a major Garment Center rezoning, opening up millions of square feet for office space.