Now the company wants to take some of our health care away.” “Health insurance was necessary to get through my battle with breast cancer. She has worked at MotorCity Casino for 24 years as a dealer. “I am a two-time survivor of breast cancer,” Terri Sykes told the rally. The UAW also represents the more than 1,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield workers who walked off the job more than a month ago statewide.Ĭasino workers are fighting for higher wages, protection of health care benefits and job security. The striking casino workers are represented by the Detroit Casino Council, which is made up of the five unions representing the casino workers: UNITE HERE Local 24, Teamsters Local 1038, the United Auto Workers, Operating Engineers Local 324 and the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters. One of the picket leaders shouted through her megaphone, “No rain is gonna slow us down!” Strikers sported United Auto Workers rain ponchos they had gotten and wrapped their picket signs in clear plastic bags to protect them. Some 3,700 workers are on strike at MGM Grand Casino, MotorCity Casino and Hollywood Casino at Greektown. Two spirited marches, one beginning at the MGM Grand Detroit Casino and the other at Blue Cross Blue Shield, made their way through city streets to converge in the city center on a rainy, windy afternoon.

The casino workers were joining ongoing strikes at the Big Three automakers, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and three nursing homes in the metro area. DETROIT - “Strike City! Detroit is Strike City!” The chant echoed through Hart Plaza here as hundreds of strikers from Detroit’s three big casinos, their family members and other unionists rallied Oct.

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