McDevitt said 60-day warning notices to employees are required, making early October the soonest the casino can close. ATLANTIC CITY When a celebrity owner hosted a lavish opening of Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in 1990, it made huge news well beyond the city. They look at this as my responsibility, and I’m a bad guy if I don’t give them what they want.”Īn exact shutdown date for the Taj Mahal has not yet been set. Icahn replied, “What is my obligation? I give hundreds of millions to charity, but this is a business it’s not a charity. In the end he’ll have to live with what he’s done to working people in Atlantic City.” “The great deal-maker would rather burn the Trump Taj Mahal down just so he can control the ashes.

“This titan of Wall Street is utterly incapable of making a decision unless it is mean-spirited and benefiting him alone,” McDevitt said. Union president Bob McDevitt blasted Icahn, calling the cost of restoring full health care “a drop in the bucket” that the billionaire can easily afford. Icahn offered to restore health insurance to Taj Mahal workers, but at a level less than what workers at the city’s other seven casinos receive. The central issue in the strike is restoration of health insurance and pension benefits that previous owners got a bankruptcy court judge to approve in October 2014.

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