Atlantic City Officials Urge Casinos to Increase Wages, Avoid Union Strike

The Atlantic City Council this hebdomad passed a resolve calling on the town’s IX casinos to stick to the union’s primary demand of higher wages for holiday resort workers.

The City Council cobbler's last nighttime approved Resolution No. 423, a movement in livelihood of Atlantic Ocean City cassino hotel workers and their union, Unite Here Local 54. The trade union is amid take negotiations with the Nina from Carolina resorts after their prior collective bargaining agreements terminated good June 1.

The casinos are existence represented by executives from MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment. Union officials are demanding higher take-home pay, as rising prices continues to lessen the dollar’s purchasing power.

Council members have got taken the worker’s side. Resolution No. 423 urges gambling casino employers to call down reward and negotiate in good faith to turn away a strike.

The Council of the City of Atlantic City living the efforts of Unite Here Local 54 to call down payoff and increase staffing at Atlantic Ocean City cassino hotels and urges the employers to negociate inwards just faith with the labor union to amount to a just concord that makes existent progress on payoff and staffing for the benefit of Atlantic City workers and the community of interests as a whole,” the declaration reads.

Union members before this month backed the authorization of a strike, should unexampled contracts non live reached by July 1. The possible walkout could co-occur with the July Fourth holiday weekend, which is typically I of the cassino destination’s busiest times of the year.

Strike Last Resort

Councilor Kaleem Shabazz plans to hold up his own intelligence group discussion this morning expressing his public funding of cassino workers. But he also hopes the union doesn’t untimely initiate a strike.

“Our desire is in that location isn’t a strike,” Shabazz said. “We don’t demand that.”

What is needed, the councilmember says, is break compensation for cassino laborers. Shabazz says the union’s demands are only when to land such workers into the midsection social class and cater them with livable wages.

A pale dividing line would spite workers and the casinos. And inward gain to the thousands of July 4 vacationers expected to get inwards town next weekend, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Convention is band for July 14-20 at the Atlantic Ocean City Convention Center.

The NAACP gathering is forecast to take more than 8,000 attendees to town and lodge in 7,700 gambling casino hotel room nights. The convention’s economic wallop is estimated due north of $9.3 million.

Strikes Scheduled

Though both sides of the bargaining table say they want to avoid a strike, Unite Here Local 54 is nonetheless organizing walkouts in anticipation that the casinos will non budge on compensation.

The uniting says a picket product line testament take form out of doors Borgata, Caesars, Harrah’s, and Tropicana on Friday, July 1, unless new terms are settled. Unite Here plans to expand the walk out to Hard John Rock on July 3 if negotiations preserve to get behind on.

The trade union claims a recent poll parrot of its members found that 61% reported struggling to compensate their charter or mortgage on clip at some peak during the past tense year.