In 2014, Trump sued Trump Entertainment Resorts to take his name off both casinos. It has since reopened under the Hard Rock brand. His most noted property, the Trump Taj Mahal hotel and casino, which he once dubbed “the eighth wonder of the world,” officially closed in 2016 with little fanfare. Trump’s decades-long relationship with Atlantic City has been marked by both grandiose ambition and rocky finances. That interest was wiped out in bankruptcy court when Icahn took over in March.The remnants of the hotel. Having lost ownership of the company to bondholders in a previous bankruptcy, Trump resigned as chairman of Trump Entertainment Resorts, retaining a 10 percent stake in return for the use of his name. Icahn offered to restore health insurance to Taj Mahal workers, but at a level less than what workers at the city's other seven casinos receive.ĭonald Trump once owned three Atlantic City casinos, but cut most ties with the city by 2009. The central issue in the strike is restoration of health insurance and pension benefits that previous owners got a bankruptcy court judge to approve in Oct.

Unfortunately we've reached the point where we will have to close the Taj.' 'Our directors cannot just allow the Taj to continue burning through tens of millions of dollars when the union has singlehandedly blocked any path to profitability.

'Currently the Taj is losing multi-millions a month, and now with this strike, we see no path to profitability,' Rodio said. On Thursday, the walkout by Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union will reach its 35th day, eclipsing the 34-day walkout the union staged against seven casinos in 2004. Tony Rodio, president of Tropicana Entertainment, which runs the Taj Mahal, said management decided Wednesday it can no longer operate a money-losing property in the midst of a strike.

Those job losses will be in addition to 8,000 workers who lost their jobs when four Atlantic City casinos closed in 2014.Īnd the bloodletting may not be over yet: Voters will decide in November whether to permit two new casinos in northern New Jersey just outside New York City, a development that would likely lead to additional casino closures in Atlantic City.

The closure of the casino opened by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump but now owned by his friend and fellow billionaire Carl Icahn will cost about 3,000 workers their jobs, and reduce the number of casinos in Atlantic City to seven. (AP) - The Trump Taj Mahal casino will shut down after Labor Day, the victim of the longest strike in Atlantic City's 38-year casino era.

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