ATLANTIC CITY
Meeting planners heading to a Trump property here can rest easy: after nearly two months of working without a contract, members of Local 54 of UNITE-HERE overwhelmingly voted in favor of a new three-year contract with Trump Entertainment. The new contract maintains health care and pension benefits for unionized employees.
The ratification was passed with 97 percent support, and union officials said they were not surprised by the contract's easy passage. Donna DeCaprio, financial secretary treasurer for the union, said the new contract maintains the core values for the 1,800 union hospitality employees it affected: health care, pension and wages.
DeCaprio said union employees at the two Trump properties, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino and Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, are subject to wage increases -- which vary depending on the established step schedule -- and will still receive free family health care.
