Employees of the prior Trump Taj Mahal casino resort, who picketed the property for over three months in 2016, eventually received their settlement checks coming from the labor dispute with the last owner of what currently operates as Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City.
Local news outlet The Press of Atlantic City reported that 944 workers of Trump Taj Mahal received the total amount of $1 million or $850.76 each on Thursday, the same day the property reopened under the Hard Rock brand, also on Friday. The aforementioned amount represented a settlement between the UNITE HERE Local 54 labor union and Trump Entertainment, Trump Taj Mahal’s previous owners.
Unionized workers at the resort and casino resort walked out at the summer of 2016, asking for better contract terms and to have their previous health insurance and retirement plans restored. Back in 2011, a few workers agreed to get their contracts altered as the property was unable to avoid bankruptcy.
The strike lasted for more than three months. It caused the prior proprietor of this property, New York businessman Carl Icahn, shutting it in October 2016. Mr. Icahn blamed the closure on the prolonged rallies, arguing that they had diminished Trump Taj Mahal’s profitability beyond repair.
Workers at the former Trump Taj Mahal told local press earlier this week that the money that they received wouldn’t mean as far as the reality that they had notched a victory against Mr. Icahn along with his lack of actual efforts to iron out the differences they had with striking employees back in 2016. Some workers said that they might have become the very first union to stand until the businessman and win.
Following the October 2016 close of this property, it filed a motion to have the terms of its employees ’ contracts rejected. A court upheld the motion. The movement resulted in both unionized workers and two individual workers filing unfair labor practice suits against the casino. The fees were found to have had honor.
The issue was supposed to go to trial but Local 54 and the casino reached a settlement, under which workers would receive compensation.
Local 54 President Bob McDevitt said that it was gratifying that workers were able to gather their tests on precisely the exact same afternoon that Hard Rock opened doorways . Hard Rock International, parent company of the Atlantic City casino resort, had struck a labor agreement with Local 54 prior to the land ’s launching.
As many as 800 former Trump Taj Mahal workers are currently employed by Hard Rock, of these 385 are members of Local 54.
The property price its owners $500 million to be remodeled by an Asia-themed resort into a normal stone ’n’roll-themed one with all the qualities of the Hard Rock brand and more.
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