ATLANTIC CITY — Chances for a casino workers strike in the city are still possible after an overwhelming majority of members of the Unite Here Local 54 union at Resorts Casino Hotel and Golden Nugget Atlantic City endorsed hitting the picket lines if a new deal is not reached.
After Tuesday’s vote, the union’s negotiating committee set a deadline of July 30.
Resorts and Golden Nugget are the last of the city’s nine casinos to settle contracts with the union.
“It has been the strategy of Local 54 Union Leadership to authorize a strike vote prior to negotiations with the properties in Atlantic City,” Mark Giannantonio, Resorts president and CEO, said in a statement. “We are eagerly awaiting to meet with the union and negotiate in good faith, terms for an amicable deal for our Team Members and Resorts.”
Strikes threatened to disrupt casino operations earlier this month prior to the deals being signed, with as many as five casinos facing a lack of employees during the busy Fourth of July weekend.
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Under the new contract, housekeeping employees will immediately see their hourly salary increased to $18, up from varying levels at different casinos.
Two other casinos, Bally’s Atlantic City and Ocean Casino Resort, agreed to so-called “me-too” deals, committing themselves to adopting the terms of contracts reached by some of the larger properties in the city.
City officials declined to comment on the labor issue.
About 1,000 workers at Resorts and Golden Nugget remain without a new agreement. With their contract expiring this summer, workers at both casinos, like the others, are demanding significant wage increases, better housekeeping workload standards, and job protections, Local 54 said.
“We just want what workers at the other casinos in the city are getting,” J Eger, a bartender at Golden Nugget, said in a statement on behalf of his coworkers. “We’re not asking for any more or any less than that.”
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