About 200 cashiers, money counters and video lottery remain on the picket line outside Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort.
Health benefits are the sticking point, according to one union official who spoke to the Weirton Daily Times. ""Our union members are paying for 37.7 percent of their health care coverage," Tony Helfer, secretary-treasurer of Local 23, told the newspaper. "The management employees at Mountaineer, who make a much higher salary, only pay 18 percent of their health care."
Local 23 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union represents about 9% of staff, and began its strike Saturday.
"Mountaineer Spokesperson Tamara Pettit says the track is open and operating with managers stepping in to fill the roles of those workers who are now off the job," MetroNews reports. " She says the company wants to keep talking."
MetroNews also has audio.
31 March 2008
W.Va. Casino Workers on Strike
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It sounds like being a union employeee is not the best way to get health coverage.
New industry, same old union thugs.
Hey, look at me!
I've got a job, let's go on strike!
IMO I just want to see the salary of all the politicians that work for mountaineer at those wages you probably can pay your own or is the state paying the healthcare was that in with their raise. I just can't remember everythiny. But, I would like to see what the jobs at mountaineer held by state sentator and delegates get for their jobs at Mountaineer.
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