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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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To: Ikeon

I read about it in news reports. Casinos aren’t my thing.


21 posted on 10/17/2023 5:41:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Libloather
MGM located a casino in Detroit because IQ demographics mean lots of fools and suckers.

22 posted on 10/17/2023 5:43:03 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I don’t dig them either.


23 posted on 10/17/2023 5:43:36 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving city.


24 posted on 10/17/2023 5:56:19 PM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: Libloather

160,000 Hollywood actors??
Seems an awful lot.


25 posted on 10/17/2023 5:56:24 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (P01135809)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The problem with going to Canada to gamble is that you never know if they will kidnap you to forcibly vaxx you.

I joke. Slightly.

Do they have electronic pulltab bingo at the veterans and fraternal clubs in Michigan like they do over the border in Ohio? Cause it’s kind of like a slot machine.


26 posted on 10/17/2023 6:02:18 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Oh, amen, FRiend. I’m not so much a gambler as I was when i was young, but certainly understand it and still buy Powerball for every drawing. That said, being in line at the convenience store behind someone who wants 3 of the Chinese-themed scratch off, and two of the Easter egg ones, and one of the magic puppies, etc etc, and takes forever doing it, makes absolutely no sense to me


27 posted on 10/17/2023 6:03:30 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Libloather

It’s not like anyone needs casinos.


28 posted on 10/17/2023 6:05:01 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Casinos are for fools.


29 posted on 10/17/2023 6:07:14 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

There goes my trip to Vegas to waste money I don’t have


30 posted on 10/17/2023 6:13:46 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Salman
"It’s not like anyone needs casinos."

Bingo! It's hard to imagine Reagan sending in scabs to break the union on this one.

31 posted on 10/17/2023 6:15:05 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Bernard

32 posted on 10/17/2023 6:21:44 PM PDT by 4Liberty (https://twitter.com/Lauren3veMemes/status/1712636606983688420 )
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To: Libloather

Isn’t communism a real pain in the ass? Damn greedy union thugs.


33 posted on 10/17/2023 6:26:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (So, when are all these damn "refugees" scheduled to go the hell home? Asking for a friend.)
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To: CodeToad
I passed through Las Vegas on my Pocatello to San Diego trip for the 50th high school reunion. I made a run by Gigaparts...one of the last ham radio stores in business and the only one on my route. A small purchase and on my way. I stayed in Glendale on the Pokey->San Diego route to split the drive. No desire to stay in Las Vegas. The return trip featured a stay in Beaver, UT at the Quality Inn (labeled Wingate now). Again, no desire to do more than pass through Las Vegas.
34 posted on 10/17/2023 6:26:41 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Libloather

Gee, I wonder if the tax revenues have dropped.

🙏🇮🇱👍


35 posted on 10/17/2023 6:41:10 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Libloather

Those that can, will. Thanks to Comrade Bidung and Bidungomocs, the vast majority of Americans are falling behind.


36 posted on 10/17/2023 6:44:41 PM PDT by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I really don’t know.I only commented because I’ve driven through the tunnel from Detroit to Windsor and it took me less than 10 minutes.


37 posted on 10/17/2023 6:50:10 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Libloather

What’s the over/under on how long it lasts?


38 posted on 10/17/2023 8:46:47 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: MV=PY
Bingo! It's hard to imagine Reagan sending in scabs to break the union on this one.

Couldn't Biden "federalize" the croupiers?

Regards,

39 posted on 10/17/2023 11:01:19 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

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

We had two used Ford Escorts in the 1980’s


40 posted on 10/18/2023 12:32:23 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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