'If you like mice and roaches, stay at the Taj Mahal!: Union 抗議する人s picket outside 大西洋 City casino for the third day in a 列／漕ぐ／騒動 over 契約s

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Gamblers crossed picket lines at the Trump Taj Mahal casino in large numbers Sunday まっただ中に taunts from striking union members whose 職業 活動／戦闘 stretched into its third day.

The 火刑／賭けるs were raised by 地元の 54 of the 部隊-HERE union against the Taj Mahal, which was opened in 1990 by Donald Trump but now belongs to his friend, fellow 億万長者 Carl Icahn.

The union called the strike after 存在 unable to agree on a 契約 that 回復するd health care and 年金 利益s that a 破産 裁判官 終結させるd in October 2014.?

It reached new 契約s Thursday with four of the five casinos it had 的d: Bally's, Caesars, Harrah's and the Tropicana.?

従業員s of the 大西洋 City Taj Mahal continued into their third day of strikes (pictured) over 契約s on Sunday?

Picketers use bullhorns to ask people not to cross picket lines and enter the Trump Taj Mahal casino in 大西洋 City

A 安定した stream of people とじ込み／提出するd in to the casino ロビー off the Boardwalk on Sunday, 勇敢に立ち向かうing amplified taunts from picketers and a 警告 to 訪問者s that 'dead mice have been 設立する in this building.'?

The sprawling casino 床に打ち倒す was busy, although it had about half the （人が）群がる that was playing at 訴える手段／行楽地s, a casino next door that is half the size of the Taj Mahal ― but not 直面するing a strike.

'Hundreds of dead mice were 設立する in the kitchen of this building!' said Benjamin Albert, an 組織するing director with the union.?

'If you like mice and roaches, stay at the Taj Mahal! If you like casinos that care about their 労働者s, stay an ywhere else!'

Questioned by a reporter, Albert said the union relied upon 大西洋 City Health Department 査察 報告（する）／憶測s from March through August of 2015 that 設立する 282 instances of mice or rodent feces throughout the casino.

The sprawling casino 床に打ち倒す was busy on Sunday, although it had about half the （人が）群がる that was playing at 訴える手段／行楽地s, a casino next door?

The union called the strike after 存在 unable to agree on a 契約 that 回復するd health care and 年金 利益s that a 破産 裁判官 終結させるd in October 2014?

Taj Mahal 管理／経営 did not すぐに 答える／応じる to a request for comment, and the city's health department was の近くにd Sunday.

In 早期に afternoon, about a dozen people stood in line to check in at the hotel desk for 保留（地）／予約s they had made weeks or months earlier, before they knew a strike was possible.?

Gamblers played slot machines throughout the casino 床に打ち倒す, and about two thirds of the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する games were in use Sunday afternoon.

Outside on the Boardwalk, picketers shouted at those leaving the casino, and 特に people who looked like they were 長，率いるing inside.?

To one man wearing a blue New York 巨大（な）s cap, a picketer yelled: 'The 巨大（な）s will never 勝利，勝つ another 最高の Bowl if you go inside there.'

To another 顧客 長，率いるing for the casino, a picketer yelled 'You'll have horrible luck. Every day, for the 残り／休憩（する） of your life.'

Other taunts were more personal, 含むing picketers using loudspeakers to call people cr ossing the picket lines 'horrible, horrible scabs.'

That seemed to steel the 解決する of Dean Cafiero, of Philadelphia, to enter the casino.

'解放する／自由な markets 支配する, and these people are against 解放する／自由な markets,' he said. 'They're trying to 持つ／拘留する people 人質.'

Rich Springer of Trenton was staying at the Taj Mahal over the 週末, and 定評のある the strike had 削減（する） 支援する on the level of service. But he said he understood why.

It reached new 契約s Thursday with four of the five casinos it had 的d: Bally's, Caesars, Harrah's and the Tropicana - but the Taj Mahal hasn't received new 契約s yet?

Striking union members walk a picket line outside of the Trump Taj Mahal casino 早期に Sunday

'These guys aren't working, so there's no one to clean the rooms,' he said. 'A lot of the higher-ups are きれいにする and carrying luggage.'

Asked if he was disappointed at the number of 顧客s crossing picket lines, Ben Begleiter, a union 広報担当者, said many people on the Boardwalk have 発言する／表明するd support for the strikers, and 定評のある many, if not most, of the hotel guests were 栄誉（を受ける）ing 保留（地）／予約s they had made 井戸／弁護士席 in 前進する of the strike.

'These are the first days of the strike,' he said. 'As we move on from here and the word spreads, there will be より小数の and より小数の 顧客s.'

The main 問題／発行する in the strike is the 復古／返還 of health 保険 and 年金 利益s that the casino's previous owners ― after Trump but before Icahn― got a 破産 法廷，裁判所 裁判官 to do away with in 2014.

'Hundreds of dead mice were 設立する in the kitchen of this building,' said Benjamin Albert, an 組織するing director with the union

The strikers 含む 労働者s that serve drinks, cook, 輸送（する） luggage, clean rooms and more. Casino 売買業者s and 安全 are not part of the strike.

The union said no 契約 会談 are scheduled.

While the casino still 耐えるs his 指名する, Trump, the presumptive 共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 指名された人, has not owned it for years.?

The 破産 とじ込み／提出するing and the 利益 terminations at the Taj Mahal happened five years after Trump 放棄するd 支配（する）／統制する of the casino and its parent company, Trump Entertainment 訴える手段／行楽地s to bondholders in a previous 破産.?

The strikers 含む 労働者s that serve drinks, cook, 輸送（する） luggage, clean rooms and more. The union said no 契約 会談 are scheduled?