Icahn likens casino union to mobsters demanding 'protection'
Source: Charlotte Observer
BY WAYNE PARRY
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.
Ratcheting up his war of words with Atlantic City's main casino union, billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Thursday likened the group to mobsters demanding protection from merchants in return for not getting bricks through their windows.
In a letter to members of Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union, the soon-to-be owner of the Trump Taj Mahal casino calls union leadership "abhorrent" and likens a union-run health care plan to a protection racket extorting money from casinos. It was his fourth missive to, or about, union members since November.
Icahn is battling the union over cost-saving measures at the money-losing Taj Mahal, which is trying to emerge from bankruptcy. The court ended employees' health insurance and Icahn wants to switch the workers to government-run coverage under the Affordable Care Act, with subsidies to help them pay for it.
"Over the last five years, while the Taj Mahal has gone bankrupt not just once, but twice, your Unite-HERE health plan has made $140 million in net income," Icahn wrote. "Yet even against the backdrop of your employer entering bankruptcy for the second time in five years, your union leadership continues to demand that the Taj make exorbitant contributions to the profitable Unite-HERE health plan, or else suffer labor unrest.
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I'm surprised he didn't call the union Nazis or Facists or Socialists or...what other SPEW that creeps like him vomit up. They want to be the supreme ruler, giving you a few crumbs and maybe a couple of shillings.
He should be jailed for crimes against the American people.
