In Atlantic City and the membership of the Local 54 branch of the Unite Here trade union has reportedly ratified new employment contracts with five of the city's nine kasinos after last month threatening strike action.
According to a Tuesday report from the Associated Press news servis, the organization revealed that 99% of its voting membership consented to the fresh four-year arrangements with the Tropicana Atlantic City, Borgata Hotel Kasino and Spa, Hard Rock Hotel and Kasino Atlantic City, Harrah's Resor Atlantic City and Caesars Atlantic City Hotel and Kasino properties. The source detiled that these are set to see the hourly rate for housekeeping employees immediately rise to $18 from a mishmash of levels before topping out at $22 by the summer of 2026.
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The Local 54 leadership reportedly earlier inked ‘me-too' deals with the Ocean Kasino Resor and Bally's Atlantic City enterprises that are to involve this pair honoring the terms of contracts worked out with their local compatriots. This purportedly means that the 717-room Golden Nugget Atlantic City and even larger Resorts Kasino Hotel are the sole Atlantic City enterprises to have yet agreed revised employment contracts.
Worker walkout:
Bob McDevitt leads the Local 54 arm of the Unite Here union and he reportedly stated that it is ‘hard to sell a housekeeping job at $16 an hour' but that the revised arrangements will make it ‘a lot easier to sell one at $20 or $22 an hour'. The representative purportedly moreover noted that this organization now intends to hold a Tuesday vote on whether to authorize strikes against the Golden Nugget Atlantic City and Resorts Kasino Hotel venues.
Timely tactic:
The Associated Press explained that the Local 54 leadership could now potentially use the coming strike authorization vote as a way to help force the two New Jersey hold-out kasinos to the negotiating table. The news servis noted that the just-passed deals furthermore include new technology protections and language that increases work opportunities and protects jobs as well as commitments to bermaintain fully-funded pension and famili health peduli benefits.
