By John L. Smith, CDC Gaming Reports
The head of the nation’s largest service employees union on Thursday blasted MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment for not “stepping up” and doing more to help thousands of the companies’ hotel-casino workers put off the job during the novel coronavirus pandemic.“In every community, the casino industry has come to, they have always proclaimed a few things,” said D. Taylor, President of the 300,000-member UNITED HERE labor organization. “One, they would bring good jobs to the area. Two, they were dedicated to the community. And three, they would obviously be a source for taxpayers’ income for the state or local coffers. That’s really been their pitch. And we’ve been through many a crisis with the casino industry. Whether we had the effects of 9/11, we had Katrina hurricane down on the Gulf Coast; we had Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City. And in all those cases, the casino industry stepped up.” (more)