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Letter
# 14
Subj.: Heed
The Call!!! Unionize Now
Date: 07/13/2000 5:15:08 AM Pacific Daylight
Time
From: anonymous@anonymizer.com (Anonymous)
To: dealers@nfge.com
Dealers wake up! Unionize now while we can still protect
our jobs. Think about what has happened recently in Las Vegas that
directly affected 1000's of dealers income.
Park Place Entertainment took over Caesars and instantly
began harassment of the older experienced dealers, lowering limits
thus lowering tokes.
MGM took over Mirage Resorts and immediately created a very
stressful work place by saying there would be layoffs. And
then, if rumors are true, laying off quite a few dealers that were
over the age of 40. Tokes are down there also.
Steve Wynn takes over Desert Inn and immediately drops all
limits to $500 maximum bet, and cancels all player's credit.
A 10 hour dealing shift there recently netted $17 in tokes.
He is closing the doors to make way for a bigger, better resort at
the cost of several peoples livelihoods.
Now Park Place Entertainment sells the Las Vegas Hilton to
the owner of the Silverton casino, and he announces that he will
lower the limits, does not want the highroller action and intends
to take out a lot of the table games to replace them with slot
machines. Lowering the limits will lower the tokes and no
highroller action will devastate tokes.
Our jobs are
being taken away by corporate greed. Dealers still work for
minimum wage and have to depend on tokes, but if the trend to
lower limits and stop high roller action continues we will all be
looking for other jobs to supplement our dealing jobs.
Dealing will indeed become a part time career. Look at how
many casinos now use the extra board as full time employees with
none of the benefits. Think of the abuse you are expected to
take while on the game. But one customer can turn in a
complaint against you and you are tried before ever giving your
side of the story.
A study recently named casino dealing as the #1 stress
causing job in the United States. Does your jobplace offer
stress management classes?
We may never have a better chance than right now to
unionize, as I said HEED THE CALL. If we all band together we can
do it.
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