Five Atlantic City casinos facing unionized workers strike on July 1

Workers at four Atlantic City casinos have voted to go on strike if they don’t receive satisfactory labor contracts by July 1.

On Thursday, several thousand members of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union voted 96% in favor of a strike. The affected casinos are the Tropicana and all three Caesars Entertainment properties – Bally’s, Caesars and Harrah’s.

The union had previously voted to picket the Trump Taj Mahal, so it too will face a work stoppage as of July 1. The Borgata, Golden Nugget and Resorts have been given a pass for the moment due to progress being made in their negotiations with the union.

The roughly 6k unionized workers’ chief grievance is that they willingly surrendered perks and went without raises during AC’s long, painful decline as a prime gambling destination. Unite-HERE said workers with 25 years experience had enjoyed total raises of only 80¢ over the past dozen years.