https://www.abouttanzanitejewelry.com/news/new-jersey-governor-chris-christie-calls-for-atlantic-city-budget-slim-down/ Latest Casino and Gaming News Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4 https://www.abouttanzanitejewelry.com/news/new-jersey-governor-chris-christie-calls-for-atlantic-city-budget-slim-down/#comment-1794 Fri, 01 Apr 2016 22:32:00 +0000 https://www.abouttanzanitejewelry.com/news/?p=34826#comment-1794 Atlantic City is very different from other New Jersey cities, with 40,000 citizens, because it has to provide services and protection to another 100,000 visitors and non resident workers on a daily basis. Like the casinos, the unions were able to earn Cadillac pay and benefit plans for their members, because Atlantic City enjoyed a casino monopoly in the Eastern US. But now the City, unions and employees have to accept reality, because the monopoly is not returning. The corollary is living on welfare and other benefits, much like the pre-casino days. As we were staffing up for the opening of the Resorts International casino, I can remember some of our Chalfonte-Haddon Hall employees complaining about having to work a full 50 weeks a year. They were used to working 3 or 4 months, and then collecting unemployment.

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