Union ramps up strike threat against Taj Mahal casino

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Washington Times

By WAYNE PARRY

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Atlantic City’s main casino workers union is ramping up its threat of a strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino.

Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union says it will load a storage trailer on Tuesday with supplies it would need for a strike against the casino. The pod will contain water coolers, T-shirts, ponchos, cots, wheelchairs, garbage cans, bullhorns, batteries, tents, tables and chairs, radios, musical instruments, marching band drums, an inflatable rat and generators.

The union also will begin training workers as “strike captains” to organize picketing.

It seeks the restoration of health insurance and pension coverage that the casino got permission from a bankruptcy judge to eliminate last October.

FULL story at link.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/24/union-ramps-up-strike-threat-against-taj-mahal-cas/

[jtuck004]

1. 4 Times Donald Trump’s Companies Declared Bankruptcy

Donald Trump, official presidential candidate, has never personally declared bankruptcy. The business ventures that bear his name, however, are a different story.
BY BRYAN HOOD
After spending much of the millennium flirting with the idea, Donald Trump actually announced on June 16 that he’s going to make a run for the Republican presidential nomination (or, at the very least, spend as much time as he can drawing attention toward himself during the debates). And while that means the 69-year-old will have plenty of time to air his heady political blend of opinion and charisma, it also means that the flamboyant entrepreneur will fall under more financial scrutiny than ever before. (And, as Trump found out Monday afternoon, after NBC cut ties with the mogul for his much-derided remarks about immigrants in his campaign announcement, there’s plenty of non-financial scrutiny as well.)

While he’s vowed to turn over his records to the Federal Election Commission on time, one of The Donald’s biggest claims—that he’s worth $8.7 billion—has already been called into question. Forbes’s accounting recently put the figure at $4.1 billion. Sure, that means he’s still “really rich”—literally one of the cornerstones of his run—but maybe not as “really rich” as he wants people to believe.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/06/donald-trump-companies-bankruptcy-atlantic-city

So much easier to live if you just quit paying your bills and walk away, leave them for others to pay,

[George II]

2. For the record, and not sticking up for Teflon Don, but he has no financial stake in this casino....

....he sold the rights to his name for this one and a few others. I believe he no longer has any part of casino properties.

That is not to say that when he owned them some of his casinos did go bankrupt.

And, I wouldn't be surprised if he mae a killing this morning on the stock market. DJIA was down 800-900 points earl, and now is "only" down 250. That slime has the money to have taken advantage of the early drop.