Ruling Doubles Paycheck for 1,375 Employees at High-Grossing Queens Slot Parlor (October 27, 2013)

[Omaha Steve]

I just found this by accident while reading something else.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/nyregion/ruling-doubles-paycheck-for-1375-employees-at-high-grossing-queens-slot-parlor.html?action=click&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article



Ángel Franco/The New York Times

“It’s life-changing. I can finally feel relieved,” Jeannine Nixon said. A Resorts World Casino employee, she makes two bus trips to school with Carl Jones Jr., her son, and then two more to get to work.

By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Published: October 27, 2013

Jeannine Nixon looked as if she had hit the jackpot. Ms. Nixon, a customer relations representative at Resorts World Casino in Queens, had just learned that she would be making $40,000 a year, up from $22,300.

“It’s life-changing,” Ms. Nixon, her voice cracking, said on Thursday. “I can finally feel relieved.”

After a year of wrangling between management and her union, the Hotel Trades Council, an arbitrator had issued a ruling that would double the average paycheck for 1,375 union cashiers, attendants, waiters, bartenders and security guards who work at Resorts World, the highest grossing slot machine parlor in the country. The decision, issued last week, is to be made public on Monday.

Resorts World, like most slot parlors and full-scale casinos, had long promised thousands of good jobs and millions of dollars in revenue for the state. It was a particularly enticing assurance in the poor and working-class neighborhoods in southeastern Queens that surround Resorts World and the aging Aqueduct horse-racing track next door.

FULL story at link.

[CFLDem]

1. Awesome news!