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New Jersey Governor Pushing Slots at Tracks

12 November 2004

News Brief: New Jersey's incoming acting governor is pushing a plan to introduce slot machines to at least one of New Jersey's horse racing tracks.

Atlantic City Strike Leads to Mixed Results

12 November 2004

News Brief: The monthlong strike in which thousands of union workers walked off the job at seven casinos was bad for business. It was also good for business.

Trump Employees Agree to New Contract

10 November 2004

News Brief: Union employees from the city's three Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts properties were the last to approve a five-year contract that provides increases in wages, health care and pension contributions and guarantees workers that their jobs will not be replaced through subcontracting.

Pennsylvania Slots No Worry to A.C. Casinos

10 November 2004

News Brief: Like church bingo, Pennsylvania's relatively modest slot parlors will be strictly the minor leagues of gambling and should pose little threat to the bigger, more extravagant Atlantic City casinos, political leaders told an industry conference Tuesday.

Slots Get Software Boost

10 November 2004

News Brief: Computer software will allow slot machines to be changed instantly to new games or different betting limits.

Visitors Return to Atlantic City for First Weekend After Strike Ends

8 November 2004

News Brief: It was business as usual on the Boardwalk this weekend for the first time in a month.

Inside Gaming: Futures Market Nailed Election

8 November 2004

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Atlantic City Casino Employees Return to Work

5 November 2004

News Brief: Their uniforms crisply pressed and nameplates polished to a high-gloss shine, members of Local 54 of Unite Here returned to work Thursday for the first time since walking off the job Oct. 1 in a contract dispute with seven casinos.

Tropicana Expansion to Open by Thanksgiving

5 November 2004

News Brief: After months of speculation about the project's fate, Aztar Corp announces that the $280 million Atlantic City Tropicana expansion will finally open by Thanksgiving Day.

Atlantic City Workers Accept Contract Offer

4 November 2004

News Brief: The casino-union contract proposal cleared its final hurdle Wednesday with members of Local 54 of Unite Here overwhelmingly supporting the deal.

Casino School Teaches Dealers' Tricks

2 November 2004

News Brief: The Casino Career Institute of Atlantic Cape Community College, on Bacharach Boulevard in Atlantic City, is one area school that turns wannabe dealers into pros.

Atlantic City Casino Strike May End

2 November 2004

News Brief: Thousands of casino-hotel workers could be back on the job as soon as Thursday, after union and casino negotiators reached a tentative agreement Monday night on a five-year contract.

Striking Atlantic City Workers Taking Fight Overseas

1 November 2004

A delegation of striking casino workers from Atlantic City will meet with major service unions in London next week to warn them that major American gaming companies are hostile to worker benefits and unions, union officials said Friday.

Study Accents Hazard of Secondhand Smoke

29 October 2004

News Brief: According to the study, published last month in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the air in bars and casinos can have up to 50 times more cancer-causing particles than the air on rush-hour highways.

New Jersey Governor's Casino Trips Scrutinized

29 October 2004

News Brief: New Jersey casino regulators have asked the state attorney general to authorize an investigation into whether freebies and perks were improperly bestowed on the governor and his staff during unpublicized visits to Trump Plaza in 2002, according to two law enforcement sources.

Casinos Accused of Labor Offenses

29 October 2004

With 10,000 casino workers going into the fifth week of their walkout in Atlantic City, union officials escalated hostilities Thursday by filing about 200 unfair labor practices complaints with the National Labor Relations Board.

Borgata Workers Get Flu Shots

28 October 2004

News Brief: In the middle of a flu vaccination shortage, about 500 employees of the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa received flu shots on a first-come first-served basis Oct. 21, according to casino spokesman Mike Facenda.

New Jersey Regulators Rule on Loan

28 October 2004

News Brief: New Jersey gaming regulators ruled that the so-called loan given to Antonio Scarselli was actually dirty money from the New York mob and denied him a casino license.

Changes Paying Off for Atlantic City

27 October 2004

News Brief: Once equated with busloads of senior citizens headed to the slot, these days Atlantic City is, as the town's new tagline proclaims, '’always turned on.'

Worker Files Complaint Against Union

27 October 2004

News Brief: A Bally's Atlantic City worker filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the union Tuesday, charging she was denied strike pay.

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