The Taj Mahal was opened in 1990 by real estate developer and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. 'Why have they incited you, the union workers at the Taj, to destroy your jobs and your livelihood rather than accept the prior offer that we made at McDevitt's suggestion?' Icahn wrote. Icahn said the company's final offer to restore health care, albeit at a lower level than what workers at Atlantic City's other seven casinos, was negotiated with union president Bob McDevitt. The central issue has been restoration of health insurance and pension benefits that the previous owners got a bankruptcy court judge to terminate in October 2014. The union has been on strike since July 1. Icahn told the workers that officials of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union knew that the company had made its final offer, but rejected it anyway, knowing a strike would result.
In a letter to the casino's soon-to-be unemployed workers on Thursday, billionair investor Carl Icahn accused their union of inciting them to destroy their own jobs by participating in the longest strike by Atlantic City's main casino workers union. The decision, which was announced Wednesday, marks another in a long list of failing casinos in Atlantic City, which now has only seven functional casinos. (CN) - After 26 years in operation, the Trump Taj Mahal casino will shut its doors for good due to a prolonged union strike.
