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“Patrons blow cigarette/tobacco smoke directly into their faces for eight hours, and due to the nature of their work, table dealers are unable to take their eyes away from the table, so they bear through the thick smoke that surrounds their workplace.”įain rejected smoking rooms as a solution, calling the suggestion “preposterous,' and said it will oppose any amendment allowing anything less than a total ban on smoking in the casinos.Ĭurrently, smoking is allowed on 25% of the casino floor. “Thousands of UAW members work as table game dealers at the Caesars, Bally’s, and Tropicana casinos in Atlantic City, and are exposed on a daily basis to the toxic harms of secondhand smoking,” Fain wrote in a letter sent last week to lawmakers. It has suggested creating enclosed smoking rooms, but has refused to divulge details of that plan. The casino industry opposes a ban, saying it will cost jobs and revenue. Fain's letter to the state Senate and Assembly was timed to the upcoming hearing. The same state Senate committee that failed to vote on the bill last month is due to try again on Thursday. Despite overwhelming bipartisan support from lawmakers, and a promise from the state's Democratic governor to sign the measure, it has been bottled up in state government committees without a vote to move it forward. Many casino workers have been pushing for three years to close a loophole in the state's public smoking law that specifically exempts casinos from a ban. The head of the powerful union, which represents workers at three casinos here, is urging legislators to move the bill forward in a scheduled hearing Thursday, warning that the union will “monitor and track” their votes.

(AP) - Shawn Fain, the international president of the United Auto Workers union who recently won large raises for his workers, is taking aim at a new target: New Jersey lawmakers who are delaying votes on a bill to ban smoking in Atlantic City’s casinos.

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