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 <description><![CDATA[<!--paging_filter--><div class="photoCaption" /><img alt="Gino.jpg" src="http://therealestate.observer.com/Gino.jpg" width="200" height="248" /><br />Bring cash: Gino's all-union staff won't strike, after all.</div />The ghosts of Frank Sinatra and Ed Sullivan may now rest in peace.

<p>Owners and employees at legendary celeb-haunt Gino restaurant (commonly called "Gino's") signed a new employment contract yesterday, ending weeks of speculation about a possible strike and potential closure of the historic Upper East Side eatery.</p>

Read our previous coverage <a href=" http://www.observer.com/20061016/20061016_Chris_Shott_pageone_newsstory5.asp">here</a>.

<p>Longtime Gino waiter and union liaison Marco Dell'Aguzzo told <em>The Observer</em> that the two sides reached a compromise Monday morning which maintains workers' health care and pension benefits while capping wages and cutting back on vacation time.</p>

Bottomline: The New York institution that author Gay Talese deemed "a time capsule" remains entact. Long live zebra-adorned walls and the Monday-night Osso Bucco special!

<em>- Chris Shott</em>]]></description>
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