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Union Offers to Resume Talks with Atlantic City Casinos12 October 2004ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- As reported by the Associated Press: "Striking casino and hotel workers offered Monday to resume negotiations in the hope of ending a 10-day-old strike that has idled thousands, forced casinos to improvise and made gamblers eat off paper plates. "Robert McDevitt, president of Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union, called on the casinos' newly formed "Coordinated Bargaining Group" to meet with union representatives on Oct. 15. "The union has rented out a meeting room in anticipation of resuming talks. None has been held since the Oct. 1 walkout by 10,000 bartenders, cocktail servers, housekeepers, porters, food servers and counter servers. "The bargaining group was formed last week by representatives of Harrah's Entertainment, Caesars Entertainment, Resorts Atlantic City and the Tropicana Casino and Resort, the owners of seven casinos where service workers have been off the job. "Prior to that, Local 54 had been negotiating individually with each casino company..." Five casinos have been excluded from the strike. They are Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Marina, Trump Plaza, the Sands Hotel & Casino and the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. |