Posted on 08/05/2016 10:20:49 AM PDT by Innovative
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn wrote a letter Thursday to the soon-to-be unemployed workers of the Trump Taj Mahal casino, accusing their union of inciting them to destroy their own jobs by participating in the longest strike by Atlantic City's main casino workers union.
Icahn told the workers that officials of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union knew that the company had made its final offer, but rejected it anyway, knowing a strike would result.
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There were stories out there that it was Trump's fault that his workers were losing there jobs. Now it turns out the unions were pushing for things precisely to get the workers to strike.
Bust every union. Let them feel the pain. Time will come where you 1) offshot all remaining jobs, 2) cut costs at home, or — more likely — 3) automate as much as possible.
This is not the first time this has happened in Atlantic City. The unions put the Tropicana out of business and forced it to be sold in bankruptcy by having union members go to the casino Control Commission and tell them all these ridiculous horror stories that the hotel rooms were not being kept up properly. The commission yanked their license and forced it to be sold to new owners. They could not find new owners at a good price and had to be sold on the cheap.
Union leaders are too often more interested in leftist political ideology and/or feathering their own nests than in the well-being of the workers they claim to represent.
There was a path forward that would have preserved the jobs, but the Union leadership chose to destroy it. Now, 3,000 people lose their jobs. Ofc the left will blame Icahn, and try to blame Trump, who has not been connected with the casino for 7+ years. But the business was not “sustainable” (favorite leftist word in other contexts) the way that the Union was trying to push it.
I wonder if someone pulling the strings only wanted to make the casino close now, to hand the Democraps a useful political club against Trump in Sept./Oct.
The Union leadership knew that they were destroying the business, so clearly they motives were something other than representing their membership’s interests.
now the can strike all they want..for years maybe...
It was done to demonstrate the destructive nature of the Trump administration's policies on the average working class stiff.
yup, those 3,000 workers are just disposable pawns in the Democrap power play....
Why? Because it had Trump's name on it? Trump got rid of any interest in the casino years ago.
You show ‘em, strikers, just like your brothers at Hostess showed ‘em!
Trump hadn’t owned or had anything to do with the casino company since 2009 aside from the 10% stake in return for the use of his name.
typo — “their” jobs. Sorry.
Note to strikers:
Robots can do the work you’re complaining about better, faster, and without complaining. Even cocktail waitresses who are young and sexy will soon be replaced by very human-like AI robots, should management tire of the union problems. Sound far fetched? It is not.
Ditto for the dealers, but the dealers are not organized at the TTM. Good for them.
Grocery stores about to go on strike Safeway, Von’s, Albertsons, and Ralph’s I am NOT going if they decide to go out I HATE UNIONS MANY, MANY of my coworkers are going to cross the line also they just CANT AFFORD to go out UNIONS are USELESS!!!! Last time they put the people out of work for almost 10 months and the workers ended up worse off than before they went out!!! Full time workers became part time workers, retirement benefits were lowered, and medical cost more MANY have NOT forgotten that during the holidays they were BROKE and gained NOTHING!!!
I think any strike over three days long is a net loss to the employees. Anything beyond that can never be made up by lost wages.
$20 an hour, strike for 5 days, lose $800 income.
Win strike, gain $2 an hour it would take 10 weeks to regain lost income. 3-4 week strike would take over a year, just in time to strike again.
Public unions should be illegal, period.
Private unions should be allowed with the following caveat: When workers go strike and the employer believes they are at an impasse; they should be allowed to hire a new workforce without any legal repercussions from the unions.
The unions control the political landscape in Washington State. They campaign for their candidates with union pay: sign wave for their candidates with union pay, knock on doors for candidates with union pay, create direct mail with union pay, create TV commercials with union pay and hand out the mail-in ballots to their union workers. Their center of operations is massive King County that has a population of 1,931,249 which is more than the populations of Nebraska (1,868,516), West Virginia (1,854,304), Idaho (1,612,136), or Hawaii (1,404,054). Because of that, Washington State is a captive state to the will of the unions.
The Poker Pro digital table was a first attempt at doing away with any human involvement. Truth is if you can't play with your chip stack, it isn't real poker. That stuff works for online poker players but won't work in a casino, at least not yet.
Think how a craps table would work without real dice.
You’re right, I know, in many ways. Not the least is that the players come there for social reasons as anything else.
What I had in mind are robots similar, but more advanced. like is being developed in China and Japan - humanoids that behave more and more like us.
Judging by how quickly other technology has progressed, I wouldn’t be surprised if an AI poker/black jack dealer would be virtually indistinguishable from a real human being in a few years.
I have been a union man for almost 45 years. I belong to 3 unions, and I employ members of 5 different unions.
and... your post is spot on.
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