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NCDA goes National!
New mission - New name
Few can deny the
changes that occurred in the gaming industry in the last few
years. Casinos are everywhere. Coast-to-coast from California to
Connecticut; from Illinois to Mississippi; from Indiana to New
Mexico, everywhere!
It's not just Las Vegas and Atlantic City anymore. Casinos are now
in virtually every state in the union. And with this spread of
legal gambling the problems that always plagued the gaming
employees in Las Vegas and Atlantic City are now multiplied.
Workers are now dispersed and isolated from each other in casinos
spread across the map. They face the same policies of heavy-handed
domination, wage scrimping and job insecurity that exist in Las
Vegas and AC. These policies are being doled out, in many cases,
by the same executives who once worked in Las Vegas and Atlantic
City, but have now moved on to greener pastures.
The NCDA has always received inquiries and calls for help from
dealers in familiar casinos such as the AC's Taj Mahal, the
Edgewater in Laughlin. But now, all of a sudden we started hearing
from some casinos with unfamiliar locations; Harrah's-North Kansas
City; Grand Victoria-Elgin, Illinois; Caesars-New Albany, Indiana;
Motor City Casino, Detroit; Tunica, Mississippi; Foxwoods Casino,
Connecticut; Isle of Capri, Lake Charles, Louisiana. We realized
that gaming is no longer a local industry. It has become a
national phenomena.
To deal with this new reality the NCDA has decided to change its
name and its goals. On July 1st we will become the National
Federation of Gaming Employees and we will expand our mission to
bring to every gaming employee in the country the rightful fruits
of their labor. It will be our goal to fight for better working
conditions, benefits, wages, job security and the equitable
resolution of workers grievances for every gaming employee in
every casino in the land.
This is not going to be an easy fight. We feel the only way to
achieve this is through worker solidarity. In other words, we need
to unionize! We must drag the casino bosses into the 21st century
kicking and screaming. But, we cannot do this if we are afraid to
say the word union. Say it now…
UNION,
UNION, UNION!
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