Atlantic Cit, New Jersey - Full- and part-time card dealers at the Tropicana Casino and Resort have approved a bid to unionize. The dealers voted 626-157 on Sunday to join the United Auto Workers, the union said. "Workers are on a roll in Atlantic City," said Joe Ashton, director of UAW Region 9, which includes New Jersey. The UAW has been pushing hard to organize workers at all of Atlantic City's 11 casinos. It has won elections at four gambling halls and lost at two others.
Evansville, Ind. - A majority of casino dealers and dual-rate dealers at Casino Aztar in Evansville, Ind., filed a petition today with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a union representation election. About 180 workers will be eligible to vote in the election. Casino Aztar workers presented their employer with a notice of the decision by a majority of casino dealers to form their own union in Evansville today.
Cynthia Fields looks younger than her 39 years and has 15 years of experience as a highly rated dealer and casino manager at upscale casinos. But Fields has discovered what many in the casino business have learned after they've been fired from their jobs: It can be tough to get back into the game. The story about how Fields was dismissed from her dealer job at Wynn Las Vegas in early January is legend in casinos in Las Vegas.
Atlantic City Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has lost its appeal to overturn the results of a spring election where more than two-thirds of dealers voted to join the United Auto Workers union. On Friday, a National Labor Relations Board judge has overruled Trump Plaza’s objection to an election in which its dealers voted 324-149 for union representation and is recommending that the United Auto Workers be certified as the employees’ collective bargaining representative.
More than 1,400 dealers and security guards at Bally's Atlantic City will vote today and Sunday in separate union elections. Approximately 1,200 full- and part-time dealers, dual-rate dealers, keno and simulcast employees will decide today whether they wish to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. The National Labor Relations Board-supervised election will be held in the Claridge Ballroom on the sixth floor from 7 to 9:30 a.m., 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. Sunday.
One dealer flew to San Diego to learn how to cheat at cards. Another rented a Tacoma house that became a crash pad for out-of-state schemers in town to bilk the Puyallup Tribe's Emerald Queen Casino. The woman who rented the house and another casino card dealer also were sent on a scouting mission to Mississippi to see if the scheme that was used to cheat the Puyallups out of more than USD 1 million would work at an Indian casino there.
Las Vegas - Days after billionaire casino magnate Steve Wynn told dealers he made "a big mistake" in allowing supervisors to share in their tips, full-time dealers at the Wynn Las Vegas resort voted overwhelming to join a union. The dealers voted 444-149 in favor of being represented by the Transportation Workers Union of America in an election this weekend that was sanctioned by the National Labor Relations Board, organizer Dennis Laux said Sunday.
Las Vegas' most heated grudge match, Wynn Las Vegas' casinos dealers vs. Steve Wynn, is going to a third round. So far in the battle over Wynn's controversial tip-reallocation policy, the casino magnate leads 2-0, having won bouts in both Clark County District Court and the Nevada Legislature.
Talk of a pro-union movement among dealers at the Wynn Las Vegas resort took a step closer to reality on Friday. The Transport Workers Union of America disclosed that it had filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board, seeking certification as union representative for Wynn’s dealers.
