Union seeking to organize casinos’ security guards
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - With efforts already under way to unionize casino dealers, an international labor group is seeking to organize an estimated 2,000 casino security guards in the city’s 11 gaming halls.
Related Casino News:
- Union win at Foxwoods may embolden organizing at Indian casinos
- Unions Successfully Organize Detroit Casino
- Unions duel for right to organize casinos
- Governor?s Push to Expand Indian Casinos Fails in California
- Union Sues For Vote On $300M NJ Casino Tax Break
- A.C. Casino Workers Seeking To Join Union
- Sports Rack changing niche, name
- China to crack down on “thriving” online gambling industry
- School security goes hi-tech
- UAW’s Casino Drive Rolling
- Trump casinos try to block union electoral victory
- EU Examines France’s Limits on Takeovers in Security, Casinos
Interesting gambling information:
- Lotteries, along with their close derivative bingo, are the most popular kinds of gambling. The popularity of lottery games is not limited to state-run lotteries. Indian tribes run lotteries and illegal lotteries still exist.
- 1905: The town of Las Vegas is founded when the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company holds a land auction at the site on May 15.
1912: The Majestic - Las Vegas's very first theater - opens, featuring the best vaudeville acts and motion pictures of the time. - The name blackjack came from an early bet (since discontinued) that paid 10 to 1 if the player got a jack of spades and an ace of spades, both black cards, as the first two cards.
- The word Casino originally meant a public hall for music and dancing. By the second half of the 19th century, the term essentially meant a collection of gaming or gambling rooms. The classic example of a casino, is the casino at Monte-Carlo, which was opened in 1861.
RSS feed
