In Canada, 8 Great Canadian Gaming Corporation ( GCGC) casinos across Ontario face a Friday deadline set by the largest private sector union in Canada, Unifor.

Eight GCGC Casinos in Ontario Face Friday Deadline Housekeeping workload Improvements were secured as well ensuring that occupied rooms must be cleaned daily. In addition to securing a living wage for tipped and non-tipped workers, members at the city’s largest casinos are all ensured increased work opportunities and job protections, fully funded pensions, and family healthcare.

The worker negotiating committee announced earlier they planned to present the now ratified new agreements to casino management, “ asking them to accept the terms already agreed to by their competitors,” according to an announcement on the Unite HERE website.

This is what we deserve,” a member of the negotiation committee member, J Eger said, according to the report. This is the contract, this is what we want. “ We would courtesy sit down maybe but there’s no negotiations. Those agreements covering about 6,000 casino workers at Hard Rock, MGM-operated Borgata, and Caesars Entertainment-operated Caesars, Harrah’s, and Tropicana were ratified by members on Monday with an acceptance by 99% of covered workers. The Union states that the city-wide agreements already reached with other casinos hold the terms they are willing to accept. 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.” Workers Want Same Terms as Other Members Have Ratified President and CEO of Resorts, Mark Giannantonio provided a statement to a news outlet that read: “ It has been the strategy of Local 54 Union Leadership to authorize a strike vote prior to negotiations with the properties in Atlantic City. It was widely believed that workers at the Golden Nugget and Resorts would be able to work out details with management to give them significant wage increases, better housekeeping workload standards, and job protections in a new four-year contract.įive Atlantic City casinos averted strikes on the Fourth of July Weekend and two others, Bally’s and Ocean casinos had already signed agreements with worker representatives. Unite Here Local 54 workers have voted to give the union’s negotiating committee permission to call a strike at Resorts and the Golden Nugget. Hospitality workers at two Atlantic City casinos voted to authorize a strike on Tuesday with the possibility of about 1,000 workers headed to the picket lines if an agreement cannot be hammered out by July 30th.

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