Details about labor unrest over Christmas Day at the North Pole
this
past holiday season are only now beginning to emerge.
It was revealed today that while the majority
of reindeer agreed to
pull the sleigh, Dasher and Dancer refused to cross the eleven
picket
line, and Santa found it necessary to secure the sevices
of two backup reindeer at the eleventh
hour. Representatives
from the Kringle Corporation insisted at a press conference this
morning that negotations
are proceeding 'productively', and that
'On Dasher, On Dancer, On Prancer and Vixen, on Barkums, on Twinkle,
on
Donder and Vixen' was a one-time-only anomaly.