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Atlantic City casinos were less profitable in 2023, even with online help

Atlantic City's casinos were less profitable in 2023 than they were a year earlier, even with help from the state's booming online gambling market. Figures released Monday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the nine casinos collectively reported a gross operating profit of $744.7 million in 2023, a decline of 1.6% from 2022. When…
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Atlantic City casinos were less profitable in 2023, even with online help
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Atlantic City casino profits down in 2023, despite online gambling boost

Atlantic City's casinos were less profitable in 2023 than they were a year earlier, even with help from the state's booming online gambling market. Figures released Monday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the nine casinos collectively reported a gross operating profit of $744.7 million in 2023, a decline of 1.6% from 2022. When…
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Atlantic City casino profits down in 2023, despite online gambling boost
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AC Casino Employees To File Lawsuit Over Smoking Ban Inside Casinos

In March, the Casino Employees Against Smoking's (Harmful) Effects (C.E.A.S.E.) announced that on April 5, they had a massive announcement concerning the bill to ban smoking throughout Atlantic City casinos, and now, we know what they were planning to let the public be aware of. Appearing with the United Auto Workers, a union that represents…
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AC Casino Employees To File Lawsuit Over Smoking Ban Inside Casinos
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Las Vegas Strip casinos get good news on popular vice ban

When a law or rule gets passed in one city, it sets a precedent for the same thing to happen in other jurisdictions. In some cases, when one city or state approves or outlaws something it creates a precedent for other locales to follow. That can create a sort of wildfire spread effect. In the five years since the Supreme Court allowed states to…
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Las Vegas Strip casinos get good news on popular vice ban
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Fuming over setback to casino smoking ban, workers light up in New Jersey Statehouse meeting

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - With prospects for a smoking ban in Atlantic City's casinos looking hazier than ever, workers who want smoking banned took matters into their own hands, lips and lungs Thursday. Members of the United Auto Workers union disrupted a meeting of a state Assembly committee that had been scheduled to take a preliminary vote on…
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Fuming over setback to casino smoking ban, workers light up in New Jersey Statehouse meeting
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AFL-CIO president to Detroit casinos: ‘Quit gambling with their workers’ livelihoods’

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler joined hundreds of Detroit casino workers chanting, "The people united will never be defeated" at Motor City Casino during a Wednesday evening rally as their strike nears the one-month mark. "It's time for Detroit casinos to quit gambling with their workers' livelihoods," Shuler said. "Union casino workers kept this…
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AFL-CIO president to Detroit casinos: ‘Quit gambling with their workers’ livelihoods’
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Detroit casino revenue drops 18% in October as strike continues

Revenue for all three Detroit casinos dropped in October 2023, according to the Michigan Gaming Control Board's monthly revenue information. It comes as a strike by five different unions representing 3700 workers against MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino Hotel and Hollywood Casino at Greektown. In all, the three Detroit casinos reported $82.8…
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Detroit casino revenue drops 18% in October as strike continues
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Latest Las Vegas labor deal ends threat of huge hotel strike

Friday morning in Las Vegas saw labor peace, and not a threatened strike along the Strip, as the Culinary union has reached its third tentative labor deal in three days with a casino operator. The union that represents more than 35000 cooks, food servers, bartenders, housekeepers and other workers at 18 major casinos had threatened to wage the…
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Latest Las Vegas labor deal ends threat of huge hotel strike
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Casino and Blue Cross labor strikes stretch on in Detroit

Detroit casino workers are continuing their strike against three operators, hopeful that they'll be able to secure a big win like the UAW has in tentative deals with domestic automakers. It's day 26 for the strike. On Oct. 17, unionized casino workers at MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Hollywood Casino at Greektown launched a strike…
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Casino and Blue Cross labor strikes stretch on in Detroit
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Another labor deal averts strike at 8 more Vegas casinos

The Culinary union has reached a deal with MGM Resorts International covering 25400 members, averting a strike at eight casinos that had been set to start Friday. The deal, announced in a by the union, comes a day after a similar deal was reached with Caesars Entertainment that averted a strike by 10000 other union members at nine casinos operated…
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Another labor deal averts strike at 8 more Vegas casinos
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The Detroit casino workers strike, explained

Kolada Richardson returned to work cleaning hotel rooms at Detroit's MGM Grand in May 2021 after more than a year off the job. When the casinos closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she weathered unemployment only to find that her job had gone from tough to brutal. Many of her coworkers didn't return, and the hotel was short-staffed. Ten-hour…
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The Detroit casino workers strike, explained
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Tentative deal reached to avert walkouts at half of Vegas casinos set to strike

A tentative five-year labor deal has been reached between the Culinary union and Caesars Entertainment to avert a potential strike at its nine casinos along the Las Vegas Strip, although nine other casinos still face possible walkouts come Friday morning. The details of the agreement, which was announced in a by the union, are not yet available,…
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Tentative deal reached to avert walkouts at half of Vegas casinos set to strike
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Strike possible at 3 Detroit casinos with union contracts set to expire

DETROIT - Employees could walk out at three Detroit casinos on Tuesday if a new deal isn't reached with their unions by Monday, when the contracts are set to expire. Unionized casino workers could strike at MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Hollywood Casino at Greektown as early as noon on Tuesday, Oct. 17 -- just hours after the casinos'…
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Strike possible at 3 Detroit casinos with union contracts set to expire
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Picketing casino workers talk important issues on first day of strike

Picket lines formed outside of MGM Grand Detroit, Hollywood at Greektown and MotorCity Casino on Tuesday as 3700 workers went on strike. It comes after the three gaming houses were unable to reach new contracts before old deals expired with the Detroit Casino Council - the group of five unions handling negotiations. The last round of casino…
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Picketing casino workers talk important issues on first day of strike
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Detroit casino workers launch strike for better pay and benefits

Thousands of casino workers in Detroit walked off the job Tuesday, calling their first strike since the MGM Grand, MotorCity Casino Hotel and Hollywood Casino at Greektown opened their doors in the city about a quarter of a century ago. The push for better wages by dealers, valets, housekeepers, and food and beverage workers came after negotiators…
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Detroit casino workers launch strike for better pay and benefits
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Thousands of Detroit casino workers strike over pay, benefits

Casino workers took to picket lines on Tuesday outside each of Detroit's three casinos after going on strike following months of failed negotiations for a new union contract. This is the latest labor action to hit Southeast Michigan, with thousands of United Auto Workers (UAW) on strike for over a month at Blue Cross Blue Shield, as well as General…
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Detroit casino union leader: 'We're calling on these companies to stop gambling on our livelihoods'

Some Detroit casino workers have endured COVID-19 multiple times. Others are working a second job to make ends meet. One of them is expecting her third child and is concerned about health care losses. "It's a hard thing to have to handle but with the commitment and the love from my community and my co-workers it's easy to get through. That's why we…
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Las Vegas hospitality workers vote for strike against hotels, casinos

Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hospitality workers fighting for new union contracts voted Tuesday to authorize a strike that could impact more than three dozen casinos and hotels, the city's economic backbone. The Culinary Workers Union hasn't gone on strike in more than three decades. The union didn't immediately set a deadline for a walkout as it…
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Las Vegas hospitality workers vote for strike against hotels, casinos
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60,000 Hospitality Workers in Las Vegas Vote to Authorize Casino Strike

More than 50000 service industry workers in Las Vegas voted on Tuesday, September 26, to authorize a strike that could impact 22 casino resorts on the Strip - which means bartenders, cooks, cocktail and food servers, guest room attendants, porters, bellmen, laundry, and kitchen workers statewide could hit the picket line at any time. The Culinary…
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60,000 Hospitality Workers in Las Vegas Vote to Authorize Casino Strike
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Las Vegas hospitality workers authorize strike against hotels, casinos

The Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas, the largest union in Nevada, voted to authorize a strike against major casinos on Tuesday if contract disputes continue. The union represents more than 60000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and is one of Nevada's strongest political forces. More than 95 percent of workers voted to authorize a strike…
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Las Vegas hospitality workers authorize strike against hotels, casinos
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Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Backers Don't Take Summer Off

The New Jersey legislative calendar is virtually dormant until after Labor Day, but backers of a ban on smoking at Atlantic City's nine casinos aren't waiting around until then. On Wednesday, a group of supporters of the ban gathered at the headquarters of the United Auto Workers office in Linwood, about 10 miles west of Atlantic City. With a…
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Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Backers Don't Take Summer Off
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Outdoor smoking only acceptable option, say advocates for closing casino loophole

LINWOOD - As long as there is no indoor smoking in casinos, and no casino worker is exposed to secondhand smoke, groups pushing to close the casino smoking loophole will help provide alternatives for smoking customers, representatives said Wednesday during a news conference. Held at the headquarters of the United Auto Workers at the Cornerstone…
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Outdoor smoking only acceptable option, say advocates for closing casino loophole
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Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Now Seen As Coming

Supporters of a ban on all smoking inside Atlantic City casinos were met with mixed news last week, as backing from New Jersey elected officials reached key milestones just as the legislature kicked off its summer-long break. Four more state senators and six more Assembly members signed on as co-sponsors to identical bills that would impose the…
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Atlantic City Casino Smoking Ban Now Seen As Coming
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Lighters Off: Rivers Philadelphia Casino Bans Indoor Smoking

While the heated smoking ban debate tied to Atlantic City casinos is still pending a decision, another casino in the neighboring state of Pennsylvania decided to embrace the smoke-free policy. The said policy was originally established by state representatives during the COVID-19 pandemic for safety purposes. While the policy currently exempts…
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Lighters Off: Rivers Philadelphia Casino Bans Indoor Smoking