As part of the agreement that was reached today, dealers will receive an eighteen percent raise spread out over the next five years. It was the first union agreement that dealers have ever completed in Atlantic City, and residents are commending the arrangement.
“With all of the negativity that has surrounded us (Atlantic City) here in the past couple of years, it was nice to see that the casino and their employees could come to an agreement on fair pay,” said Lillian Bell. “Hopefully, the other casinos can follow suit and create new deals with their workers.”
I’m all for getting what you can, when you can but at face value this seems as if it’s trying to get blood from a stone. In the short term this may be good for the dealers, but if things don’t pick up in Atlantic City the raises won’t matter because there won’t be a need for dealers and hours will be cut because of increased cost.
The Tropicana did what they had to for business today and they’ll do what they have to for business tomorrow…for better or worse to the dealers.
