ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. The battle over bulge continues at an Atlantic City casino.
The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa has rejected a union grievance challenging the casino's imposition of weight limits on cocktail servers -- known as "Borgata Babes" -- and costumed bartenders.

The casino told them last month it would begin weighing them and punish any who gained more than seven percent of their body weight with suspensions and firings.

But Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union, which represents the cocktail servers and the bartenders, quickly contested the policy. They say it violates the casino's contract with the union by imposing a unilateral change in working conditions.

The union, which announced the decision today, says it now plans to take the matter to arbitration.