ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City’s main casino workers union and the New Jersey attorney general on Monday asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a different union that seeks to ban smoking at the city’s nine casinos. Local 54 of the Unite Here union said in a filing in state Superior Court that a third of the 10,000 workers it represents would be at risk of losing their jobs and the means to support their families if smoking were banned. Currently, smoking is allowed on 25% of the casino floor. But those areas are not contiguous, and the practical effect is that secondhand smoke is present in varying degrees throughout the casino floor. A lawsuit brought earlier this month by the United Auto Workers, which represents dealers at the Bally’s, Caesars and Tropicana casinos, seeks to overturn New Jersey’s indoor smoking law, which bans it in virtually every workplace except casinos. |
Cunchao Attracts Billions of Views, Boosts Regional DevelopmentMultiethnic Family's Virtues Nourish Younger GenerationsRenters now pay an extra £5,993 a year in rent and energy bills compared to a decade agoYoung Chinese Woman Aerobatic Pilot Fulfills Flying Dreams Overseas in AustraliaChina's Quan and Chen Storm to Women's Sychronized 10m Platform VictoryLadies Claim Relay GoldChina Grabs Two Golds at Women's Boxing World ChampionshipsZhang Weili Defends UFC Strawweight Title Against Brazil's Amanda LemosCoffee Grown by Women of Wa Ethnic Group in SW China's Yunnan Sent as a Gift at UNBiden administration agrees to provide $6.4 billion to Samsung for making computer chips in Texas