Hard Rock deal averts strike in Atlantic City

Atlantic City can rest easy, for now, after workers reached an agreement with Hard Rock, diminishing the threat of strikes

Atlantic City can repose easy, for now, after workers reached an understanding with Hard Rock, diminishing the threat of strikes.

Five properties faced the possible action of walkouts this month after employee contracts expired at the terminate of May. However, a last-minute sell was reached with Borgata, Caesars, Harrah’s and Tropicana on 30 June.

While this saw Atlantic Ocean City narrowly avoid strikes, a 3 July deadline remained inward set up at Hard Rock. But according to Unite Here Local 54, a “tentative agreement” has at present been reached, removing the final threat to the urban center during this year’s Fourth of July celebrations.

On behalf of roughly 1,500 Hard John Rock gambling casino workers, the deal was approved past a conglutination negotiating committee, though members must ease balloting to ratify the agreement.

Thus far, septenary of Atlantic City’s Nina from Carolina casinos experience inked deals with Local 54. Bally’s and Ocean feature signed “me-too” agreements which testament reckon them borrow the terms agreed with the larger properties.

Golden Nugget and Resorts World, meanwhile, get yet to ink new deals, though Local 54 expects to stretch an understanding inward the coming days.

“We are super proud of(p) that we were erstwhile once more able to contact a successful closure with Unite Here Local 54 to increment wages and benefits for our worth(p) team members,” said Jim Allen, Chairman of Hard John Rock International, as reported by the Associated Press.

“We seem frontwards to farther expanding this excellent human relationship at both the subject and local levels as we raise our iconic brand.”

This business deal testament amount as a succor to the casinos concerned, averting any perturbation to their plans for Independence Day weekend and, sledding forward, the busy summertime season.