After more than two years of negotiations, declining revenue and management changes, Atlantic City’s Tropicana Casino and Resort is about to make history.
Almost all of the casinos 700 dealers represented by the United Auto Workers union have agreed on the terms of a preliminary contract set to be voted on next week.
While terms of the deal have not been released to the public yet, a representative of the union said that it will cover union employees over the next five years and will be the first unionized contract in the history of all gaming properties in Atlantic City.
Negotiations with the union began before Adamar of New Jersey and Columbia Sussex, the previous owners of the resort, were found unsuitable to hold a casino license in 2007 by the New Jersey casino control commission and continued after investor Carl Icahn and a group of creditors purchased Tropicana Entertainment out of bankruptcy in 2009.






