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AC casino union willing to take 50-cent cut

Casino service workers in Atlantic City are offering financial concessions in order to help the nation's second-largest gambling market survive. But the proposed givebacks are far below what the casinos say they need to stay afloat.

By Wayne Perry | Updated on September 22, 2011
In this photo taken July 28, 2011, Bob McDevitt, president of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE casino workers union, addresses a protest outside Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Casino service workers in Atlantic City are offering financial concessions in order to help the nation’s second-largest gambling market survive. But the proposed givebacks are far below what the casinos say they need to stay afloat.

In contract talks that resumed this week, Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union reluctantly offered to cut overall compensation for some 14,000 housekeepers, food and beverage servers and luggage handlers by 50 cents an hour. The cuts would not be made to base salary or benefits, but involve items like giving up a paid holiday for an employee’s birthday, delaying pension eligibility for 90 days and other items.

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