“That’s the thing I’ve been hearing most about on the picket line,” says Shuler, “is the lack of respect and dignity, seeing workers as expendable when they’re doing more with less.” Listen: Strike against Detroit’s casinos enters its fifth week
AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says that doesn’t sit well with protestors. “And when the auto companies can settle a historic contract,” said Mills, “the casino industry in Vegas can settle a historic contract, we say ‘why not here in Detroit?’ Why can’t the casino industry in Detroit settle a historic contract as well?”ĭespite the strike, gaming houses in the city brought in more than $80 million in table game revenue during October. She says represented members are being motivated by the labor movement across the country.
Gwen Mills is Secretary Treasury for Unite Here - one of the unions representing casino workers under the Detroit Casino Council (DCC). With the holidays coming, union leaders say spirits are still high on picket lines.
As the ratification process for new automotive contracts works towards completion, a strike against MotorCity, MGM Grand Detroit and Hollywood at Greektown casinos is now in its fifth week.
