Posted on 10/17/2023 4:52:01 PM PDT by Libloather
Detroit's casino workers are currently on strike after union contracts expired at all three of the city’s gambling facilities.
Walkouts in Motor City began Tuesday at noon, carried out by some 3,700 casino workers across five unions.
The Detroit Casino Council, the body that represents the procession, has been seeking better wages and benefits - a common theme in the US as of late as the cost of living continues to sky-rocket.
Strikes, as a result, have been widespread - with nearly 34,000 autoworkers also striking in the city, and more than 160,000 Hollywood actors still seeking higher wages and better job security.
Two large-scale strikes, meanwhile, ended in the past month - with Tinsel Town's screenwriters and Oakland-based Kaiser Permanente coming to resolutions in their quests for higher wages. The two strikes in Detroit, though, remain ongoing.
Nia Winston, president of Unite Here Local 24, explained Tuesday that dealers, cleaning staff, and valets chose to join the picket line after they and MGM, Hollywood Casino, and MotorCity Casino failed to come to an agreement.
'Making the decision to strike is never easy, but it’s past time for the workers who keep Detroit’s casinos running to get their fair share,' the casino union boss, one of five presiding over the now-ongoing strikes, said.
'The city’s big three casino operators are earning more than ever, and we’re prepared to stay out on strike until we get what we deserve.'
The strike, while not the first from fed-up casino workers in recent years, is the first at the Detroit casinos - which opened its doors to Great Lakes gamblers back in the late 1990s and 2000.
At the time, pre-recession, the American economy was booming - and unionized protests appeared to be close to becoming a thing of the past.
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“’The city’s big three casino operators are earning more than ever, and we’re prepared to stay out on strike until we get what we deserve.”
I thought they got what they deserved the last time they went on strike. What changed?
Dang
Crashing the country is the best way to get a raise.
Windsor is 15 minutes away.
Oh, crap! They’ll all be packing the convenience stores buying lucky scratch-offs! It’ll take 30 minutes to buy a soda!
And good luck if you win a jackpot at an Indian casino, they'll say the machine "malfunctioned" and then offer you a steak dinner instead of giving you your prize.
Good times, because the economy is doing so well.
Sounds like a real life warning from you.
More jobs that will be filled by robots in the near future.
It is not coordinated, keep telling yourselves, it is NOT coordinated.
The true minimum wage is zero. Exactly “zero” (benefits not included).
Excellent analysis of the situation.
I see the Big 3 breaking the strike. You have an idiot wearing a shirt during TV 📺 interviews that says “Eat the Rich”. Yea . That ain’t gonna work. No t in this economy.
I have no problem with unions. However I have always prayed for the Death of the UAW. An albatross around the neck of the Big 3.
Even the Illegal Aliens get to go on striker in this country.
The last UAW built vehicle I bought was in 1990. I stopped because of the UAW.
Should have never been legalized. And a sign of economic decline that it was.
Big “Gaming” can go on strike for the rest of time as far as I am concerned.
It is a warning from God not to gamble your money away.
It should be a crime for employees to deliberately damage their employer’s business. An organized labor strike is extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion, but they’re shielded by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (passed by two demoncrat-controlled chambers of Congress, signed by a socialist POTUS, and upheld by a majority socialist SCOTUS).
Repealing it is long overdue.
No one wants to earn less than a fast food worker, so if those idiots start earning more, everyone up the food chain starts demanding more.
Bet on it.
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