Casino Union Members Stage Traffic Sit-In
Source: nbc philadelphia
By Wayne Parry
Atlantic City's main casino workers' union took its battle with billionaire investor Carl Icahn to a new level Wednesday, calling him "a malignancy that needs to be cut out," and blocking traffic in front of the casino Icahn is acquiring and where employee health care and pension plans have been eliminated.
Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union says 60 to 70 of its members sat down in the street outside the Taj Mahal casino and allowed police to arrest them as part of a civil disobedience protest against Icahn.
"We're here to stand up to the biggest bully in the New Jersey casino industry, Carl Icahn," union President Bob McDevitt told The Associated Press. "He's a malignancy that needs to be cut out from the Atlantic City casino industry."
Icahn responded by saying the union cares more about collecting fees for its health insurance plan than protecting its members' jobs, and repeated his contention that costly union work rules contributed to the closure of three of the four Atlantic City casinos that went belly-up last year.
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