“The workers made a choice that they weren’t going to accept benefits and terms of employment worse than everyone else’s. “Everybody has their Popeye moment: ‘That’s all I can stands I can’t stands no more,’ “ he said. You take away our health care, our pensions and overload the workers, we just can’t take it.”īob McDevitt, president of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union, said virtually all of the striking workers feel the same way. But to us, it’s destroying our livelihoods and our families. He led a moment of silence among the otherwise rowdy 200 or so picketers on the Boardwalk outside the casino “before we shut down Taj Mahal.” He was here when the doors opened in April 1990 and wanted to be there when they closed as well.
“It’s hard to believe they weren’t able to make a deal.”Ĭhuck Baker, a cook at the Taj Mahal since the day it opened in April 1990, was on the picket line outside the casino at the moment it shut down. “I felt they should have been able to make a deal,” Trump told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
