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Ocean Resort Casino employees push toward unionization

March 3, 2019

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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...

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

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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...

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

K Morrison

July 17, 2016

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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...

Local 54 ratifies contract for 3 Caesars casinos in Atlantic City; Taj Mahal strikers to protest in NYC

K Morrison

July 13, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

While workers from the Trump Taj Mahal approach the two-week mark on the picket lines, Unite Here Local 54 workers from Caesars, Bally’s, and Harrah’s in Atlantic City have approved upwards of $44 million worth...

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

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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...

Picketers at the Taj Mahal taunt gamblers crossing strike line

K Morrison

July 4, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

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People looking to gamble at the Trump Taj Mahal on Sunday were met with taunts from members of Local 54 of the UNITE HERE union as they picketed for the third day of the strike against the Atlantic City casino ...

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...

Taj Mahal workers strike; union reaches deal with 4 Atlantic City casinos

K Morrison

July 1, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

After negotiations between the Trump Taj Mahal and Unite Here Local 54 failed, the casino’s approximately 950 union workers hit the picket lines on Friday morning at 6am; while the other four Atlantic City casi...

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

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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...

Union appeal over Trump Taj Mahal bankruptcy rejected by Supreme Court

K Morrison

June 1, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, New Jersey

A challenge by a union attempting to restore the pension and health benefits of upwards of 1,000 workers at the Atlantic City Trump Taj Mahal casino was rejected Tuesday by the U.S. Supreme Court. Ending the...

Local 54 and Tropicana negotiation session results in picket of casino by union supporters

Marie Kelley

May 7, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, New Jersey

On Tuesday, the management of the Tropicana Casino of Atlantic City and the UNITE-HERE Local 54 met to negotiate terms for members of the union, with the meeting not going as planned, at least according to the ...

Taj Mahal takeover could be sidetracked based on Local 54 appeal

K Morrison

February 15, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Bankruptcy, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, New Jersey

If the U.S. Supreme Court is asked by a union to review a case over pension and health benefits rescinded from casino workers, plans for the Trump Taj Mahal to rise from the depths of bankruptcy under new owner...