This time around in talks with studios, union negotiators will be facing a new but familiar opponent on the other side of the table after longtime studio negotiator Carol Lombardini stepped down.
The case had been set for a court hearing in late August over enforcement of the 2023 arbitration award, but attorneys for the union filed an unopposed motion the day before, asking for the hearing to be continued.
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Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
8 Sep. 2026
Burke has pleaded not guilty to murder charges and denied wrongdoing through his attorneys.
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