Union Starts Picketing 'Biggest Loser'

Union Starts Picketing 'Biggest Loser'
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Fifty crew members walk off Wednesday's shoot; the group is demanding a union contract for the reality show with pension and health benefits.

A union drama unfolded Wednesday in the Santa Monica Mountains high above Malibu as a small group of below-the-line workers picketed at the state park where NBC's
The Biggest Loser
is produced.

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