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Now the CASINOS are going on strike! More than 3,700 workers - including dealers, cleaning staff and valets - strike against MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino and Hollywood Casino
Daily Mail ^ | 10/17/23 | Alex Hammer

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: casino; detroit; hollywood; mgm; michigan; strike
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Good times.
1 posted on 10/17/2023 4:52:01 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

“’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?


2 posted on 10/17/2023 4:52:46 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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Dang


3 posted on 10/17/2023 4:52:47 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Libloather

Crashing the country is the best way to get a raise.


4 posted on 10/17/2023 4:52:55 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Libloather

Windsor is 15 minutes away.


5 posted on 10/17/2023 4:54:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Libloather

Oh, crap! They’ll all be packing the convenience stores buying lucky scratch-offs! It’ll take 30 minutes to buy a soda!


6 posted on 10/17/2023 4:56:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Libloather
I remember when Vegas and Atlantic City were the only hubs for casinos. Now there are casinos within 50 miles of where you live.

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.

7 posted on 10/17/2023 5:01:38 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Libloather

Good times, because the economy is doing so well.


8 posted on 10/17/2023 5:03:01 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Sounds like a real life warning from you.


9 posted on 10/17/2023 5:03:17 PM PDT by Ikeon (Dont like what you see? then look away. )
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To: Libloather

More jobs that will be filled by robots in the near future.


10 posted on 10/17/2023 5:04:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Libloather

It is not coordinated, keep telling yourselves, it is NOT coordinated.


11 posted on 10/17/2023 5:06:18 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: Libloather

The true minimum wage is zero. Exactly “zero” (benefits not included).


12 posted on 10/17/2023 5:10:58 PM PDT by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

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.


13 posted on 10/17/2023 5:12:32 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: Libloather

Even the Illegal Aliens get to go on striker in this country.


14 posted on 10/17/2023 5:13:11 PM PDT by KobraKai
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To: MotorCityBuck

The last UAW built vehicle I bought was in 1990. I stopped because of the UAW.


15 posted on 10/17/2023 5:16:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Libloather

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.


16 posted on 10/17/2023 5:17:17 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Ikeon

It is a warning from God not to gamble your money away.


17 posted on 10/17/2023 5:25:34 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

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.


18 posted on 10/17/2023 5:28:46 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Libloather

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.


19 posted on 10/17/2023 5:34:45 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Ikeon

Bet on it.


20 posted on 10/17/2023 5:37:12 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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