Dozens of Detroit’s casino workers prepared picket signs and wore union shirts Thursday afternoon as they called for higher wages and to maintain their health care benefits amid negotiations with the city’s three gaming houses to replace contracts that expire next week.
“The casinos used to be the best job in the hospitality industry and we are continuing to fight to make sure that that is the case,” said Nia Winston, president of UNITE HERE Local 24, during a press conference Thursday at the Michigan Conference of Teamsters Welfare Fund building. “And I just cannot imagine that we are here today just asking for the basic demands from these employers who we helped keep afloat for two and a half decades.”
