Pro-union hourly workers picket Rivers Casino

Source: Trib Live

By Jason Cato

Hourly workers at Pittsburgh's Rivers Casino marched closer to forming a union on Thursday, as they picketed outside the North Shore property and attempted to deliver a petition to top executives.

After two years of efforts, the Steel City Casino Workers Council said it has collected signatures of more than two-thirds of the casino's roughly 800 hospitality employees. Members of the organizing committee said they slipped copies of the petition beneath locked doors outside the casino's executive offices.

“The message is there,” said Hannah Taleb, 26, of the North Side, who has worked for nearly three years as a slots attendant.

Patrons using valet service arrived to find on their left the casino, with its main entrance cloaked in large signs reading “Voted Best Place to Work” from a 2014 employee survey conducted by the Pittsburgh Business Times. To their right, around 100 protestors carried pickets and chanted in unison.

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