Union Authorizes Strike Against Trump Taj Mahal

[Omaha Steve]

Source: ABC News-AP

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

Workers at Trump Taj Mahal have authorized a strike against the troubled Atlantic City casino as they await a federal appeals court ruling on whether the casino must restore health insurance and pension benefits that it scrapped last year.

Members of UNITE HERE Local 54, which represents nearly 1,000 service workers including bartenders, cooks, housekeepers and bellmen — but not casino dealers — voted Thursday to allow the union's negotiating committee to call a strike, if they feel it's necessary.

The union's last contract expired in September 2014.

Trump Entertainment Resorts owns the property now, but lender Carl Icahn is taking ownership as it comes out of bankruptcy. Last year, the casino ended pension and health insurance for its unionized workers. That decision has been the center of litigation that's now being contemplated by the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/union-authorizes-strike-trump-taj-mahal-32516950

[randys1]

1. SC is going to hear a case that can destroy unions, right? How do we get

people to understand?

[Fred Sanders]

2. Why doesn't new owner Icahn agree to restore the illegally cancelled contract and then sue

Trump's defunct holding company, joined with the union now selling their labor to Icahn, for breach of contract, general damages, loss of reputation damages, and of course punitive damages for being a racist and hairless dickwad?

[OldRedneck]

3. Oh, by "authorizes strike," you mean "labor strike" as in work stoppage . . . .

. . . not a drone strike.

Oh, well, we can always hope.