Once the proposed five-year contract is ratified, workers will see an immediate 18 percent pay raise on average, as well as no health care cost increases for employees. The council is made up of members of five unions: UNITE HERE Local 24, the United Auto Workers, Teamsters Local 1038, Operating Engineers Local 324, and the Michigan Regional Council of Carpenters. Striking workers - who include dealers, housekeepers, food and beverage employees, valets, and engineers - will remain on the picket lines outside of MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Hollywood Casino at Greektown until the Detroit Casino Council ratifies the proposed settlement. A tentative agreement has been reached on Friday, November 17, with Detroit’s three casinos and the 3,700 workers who’ve been on strike for exactly one month in a fight for what labor organizers call the largest wage increase negotiated in the history of the city’s casino industry.
