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Ocean Resort Casino employees push toward unionization

March 3, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

With new ownership comes changes, and Ocean Resort Casino in Atlantic City is currently undergoing its share, including what appears to be the imminent unionization of its hotel and restaurant employees. Acc...

Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Atlantic City inks union deal

Adam Morgan

February 27, 2018

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

In New Jersey, the local chapter of the UNITE HERE trade union has reportedly agreed a deal with Hard Rock International that may see it become the official representative for employees at the American casino o...

Job fair success for coming Atlantic City casino

Adam Morgan

January 31, 2018

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino project updates, Employment & Careers, New Jersey

Ahead of its opening in the summer, the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Atlantic City reportedly held an invitation-only job fair yesterday in hopes of finding employees to fill some 3,000 expected positions. Acc...

Trump Taj Mahal officially shuts down

Sadonna Price

October 10, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino closures, Economy/Finance, Bankruptcy, New Jersey

As of 5:59 a.m., on October 10, 2016, the Trump Taj Mahal became the 5th casino to shut down in Atlantic City, New Jersey since 2014. Almost 3,000 individuals are without jobs after billionaire owner Carl Icah...

Carl Icahn rejects UNITE HERE Local 54 proposal to pay $1.3 million to call off Trump Taj Mahal casino strike

Renee Kingsley

August 29, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Employment & Careers, Labor Relations, New Jersey

Billionaire and owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino, Carl Icahn had announced earlier this month that he intended to shut down the troubled Trump Taj Mahal casino on October 10 as a result of the casino continu...

No end in sight for Trump Taj Mahal casino strike

K Morrison

July 22, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

After Trump Taj Mahal’s management company, Las Vegas-based Tropicana Entertainment, permanently withdrew a contract offer it made to some 1,000 striking workers at the Atlantic City casino on Monday, it's look...

Tropicana Entertainment withdraws offer to striking Trump Taj Mahal workers

Adam Morgan

July 19, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

The management company for Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort has “permanently withdrawn” a health insurance offer it made to striking workers at the Atlantic City venue after their union failed to put the proposal ...

Contract ratified with Tropicana union members; workers continue to strike at Taj Mahal

K Morrison

July 17, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

On Thursday, 99 percent of UNITE HERE Local 54’s Tropicana members agreed to the terms of a new contract offered by the Tropicana Atlantic City, according to an Associated Press report. The three Caesar’s pr...

Striking Taj Mahal workers dig in for week two in Atlantic City

K Morrison

July 10, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

On the morning of Friday, July 8 at approximately 6am, about 900 Local 54 UNITE HERE hospitality workers from the Trump Taj Mahal entered week two of the strike against the casino once owned by presumptive Repu...

Whistles blow and drums bang for day three of Taj Mahal strike

K Morrison

July 3, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

Atlantic City’s busiest weekend of the year looks to be problematic for the Trump Taj Mahal as Sunday marks day three for approximately 1,000 union members on the picket lines after contract negotiations on Thu...

Possible casino strike in Atlantic City two days away

K Morrison

June 29, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

With the busiest holiday weekend for Atlantic City just two days away negotiations continue, but it’s looking increasingly like workers will be on the picket line on Friday. That’s the latest word from Bob M...

Meetings scheduled between casinos and Atlantic City casino workers as July 1 walk-off looms

K Morrison

June 26, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

With a strike looming, contract negotiation meetings between UNITE HERE Local 54, which represents approximately 9,600 hospitality workers in the Atlantic City area, and representatives of Tropicana Atlantic Ci...

Atlantic City Casino Workers vote to strike on July 1

K Morrison

June 17, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

Thousands of Atlantic City casino workers have authorized a July 1 walk-off – on casino’s biggest holiday weekend of the year – if they don’t have a new contract in hand by then. According to a Unite Here ne...

Spending cuts—but not bankruptcy—eyed for Atlantic City

Sadonna Price

January 17, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Economy/Finance, Employment & Careers, Labor Relations, New Jersey

Bob McDevitt is the President of the Local 54 of Unite-HERE, a union heavily involved in the Atlantic City casino industry. Union workers have been greatly affected by recent issues in Atlantic City including t...