Following the announcement that the Teamsters and UNITE HERE were trying to organize UFC fighters, the UFC let the fighters know that those same unions are the enemies of MMA in New York. Are fighters merely pawns in the union's struggle with Station Casinos? Bloody Elbow spoke to the Teamsters to try and answer the many questions raised by their efforts.
On Thursday, Teamsters Local 986 and UNITE HERE's Culinary Union Local 226 announced that they would be working together to try and organize the UFC's fighters. Many took this to be nothing more than a "thinly veiled attempt to leverage UFC fighters in the Culinary Union's battle to unionize Station Casinos.