Carl Icahn Awarded Trump Taj Mahal as Battle with Union Continues

Icahn also released a letter to Local 54 Taj employees this week that likens the national UNITE HERE organization to a Ponzi scheme that uses dues to enrich the lives of its leadership at a detrimental cost to its members.

It is an undisputable fact that your union leadership refused to negotiate with the Taj as its losses were mounting and it was pushed into bankruptcy. Your union leadership refused to consider any concession that would have helped keep the Taj afloat, and that is because your jobs do not matter to the union leadership, Icahn wrote.

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The once bustling gambling mecca of the east coast is now home to just eight total casinos, and Icahn now has control of two, or 25 percent of the city s gaming venues. That means along with Caesars Entertainment, owners of Bally s, Caesars Atlantic City, and Harrah s, Icahn has a small monopoly on the town where the game of Monopoly is based.

Thought it s understandable union workers want and need their health insurance and pension benefits reinstated, their tactics might be going about it in the wrong way. This week, Local 54 delivered a letter to Icahn s midtown Manhattan office with a list of its demands, along with an apple pie, a dig in response to Icahn saying apple pie and roses isn t the way the world works earlier this year.

We d suggest he have an intern take a bite first.