Atlantic City’s main casino workers union wants 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 says many of its 10,000 workers could lose their jobs and the means to support their families if smoking were banned.
Casino workers in favor of banning smoking in Atlantic City demonstrate outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J., April 5, 2024, after filing a lawsuit seeking to force a smoking ban. On Monday, April 29, 2024, Atlantic City ’s main casino workers union asked a judge to let it intervene in that lawsuit. Casino workers in favor of banning smoking in Atlantic City demonstrate outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J.
Nancy Erika Smith, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit, reacted incredulously to the request by Local 54. DeCaprio said a total smoking ban would be “catastrophic” for Atlantic City, adding that between 50 to 72% of all gambling revenue won from in-person gamblers comes from smoking sections.introduced earlier this year that would keep the current 25% limit of the casino floor on which smoking can occur.
“A total smoking ban would place thousands of jobs at risk, endangering the wages, health and welfare benefits and retirement benefits of Local 54 members and their families,” the union wrote in its court filing.
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