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Letter
# 20
Subj.: Dealers
Union
Sent: Tuesday; July 18, 2000 8:36 AM
From: # 20-AC
To: <ncda@fiax.
net>
Hello,
I would like some information on what you are trying to do,
particularly in Atlantic City. I have been a dealer for 6 years
and I was involved in the Teamsters campaign at the Tropicana a
few years ago. I know there is still a significant interest among
dealers at several casinos in the city about unionizing. I
also know that being so close at the Tropicana and failing has
demoralized a lot of dealers, and pulling something like this off
will be difficult but worth it.
Thank You,
# 20-AC
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***NFGE
Response***
To: # 20-AC:
Our goal is to unionize every gaming employee in the
country.
I know, it sounds like we are shooting for the moon, but
that's what we feel is needed to get this industry in the
mainstream alongside other American industries as far as employee
benefits, wages and working conditions are concerned.
The problem is that the casinos have near unlimited
resources and a universal obsession that if dealers and other
gaming employees were unionized the gaming industry would be
doomed.
Our opinion is exactly the opposite. If gaming employees
were to go union, there would be a renaissance, I daresay, a
rebirth of gaming in a way that would benefit all. This last
decade has seen tremendous expansion of gambling and great wealth
created.....except none has flowed from the casinos' bulging
treasuries to the gaming employees. They have money to construct
and tear down casinos so fast that we can't keep track of them
anymore, but they haven't got a dime for wages.
The only way for gaming employees to break this degrading
cycle is to stand together and be tenacious. A union can come in
and run an election, but the employees must be strong enough to
withstand the tactics of the union-busters that the casinos will
hire, and they must ignore the threats of the bosses and stand
together.
It is not the union that will win a contract...it is the
employees themselves. Unless and until the union comes in and wins
an election and the gaming employees pull together and stand tough
under pressure, the casino bosses will continue to reign supreme.
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