New York Daily News

Deli workers want another helping

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WORKERS AT a famous Manhattan deli are in a real pickle after getting laid off at the end of the holiday season.

Thirty-five members of UNITE—HERE Local 100 marched outside Carnegie Deli at 55th St. and Seventh Ave. on Friday — waving picket signs and chanting, “Bring back our deli jobs.”

The diner — famous for its gut-busting sandwiches — told its employees in September that it would close for good at the end of December, according to a spokeswoma­n for the owner.

But its employees haven’t given up hope on a reprieve.

“We are here (to beg) the owner of the Carnegie to reopen and accept all of the employees that work here to come back to work for her,” said Rachaneeuu­an Sriphud, 63, of Queens. THE URN holding Carrie Fisher’s remains is an oversized antidepres­sant.

The “Star Wars” actress, who was laid to rest alongside her mother Debbie Reynolds Friday, was open about her struggles with addiction and mental illness.

“Carrie’s favorite possession was a giant Prozac pill that she bought many years ago,” her brother Todd Fisher said as he left the private joint funeral at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills for his mother and sister. “She loved it, and it was in her house, and (Fisher’s daughter) Billie (Lourde) and I felt it was where she’d want to be.”

Fisher, died at age 60 on Dec. 27. Reynolds, star of “Singin’ in the Rain” and many other classic movies, died a day later at age 84.

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