The United Auto Workers wants state legislators to hold hearings on a bill that would close a loophole in state law that leaves casinos as virtually the only indoor workplace where smoking is permitted.
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey -- A union representing Atlantic City casino dealers is calling on New Jersey lawmakers to prohibit smoking in the resort's casinos.
"Our members include dealers who sit inches away from patrons who blow smoke directly into their face for eight hours a day, every single day," read the letter on behalf of workers at Caesars, Bally's and Tropicana."It is simply unacceptable knowing what we know about the dangers of secondhand smoke. No worker in the state of NJ should be forced to breathe cancer-causing chemicals every single day.
But the casinos' trade group, The Casino Association of New Jersey, says doing so would place the casinos at a competitive disadvantage in the crowded northeast casino market, particularly when seven of the nine casinos have not exceeded the level of gross operating profit they enjoyed before the pandemic hit.
The move by the UAW is also significant in that it shows a split between the two major casino workers' unions in Atlantic City. In a letter sent earlier this month to state Senate President Nicholas Scutari, Bob McDevitt, president of Local 54 of the Unite Here casino workers union, urged lawmakers not to pass a smoking ban.
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