Comment on Taj Mahal strike enters 2nd day over health care, pensions

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A top manager for billionaire Carl Icahn says Atlantic City's main casino workers' union appears "hell-bent" on trying to shut down the Trump Taj Mahal casino as a strike against the struggling gambling hall enters its second day. Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union went on strike Friday against the Taj Mahal, the casino opened by Donald Trump in 1990 but now owned by his friend, Icahn. The main sticking point is the union's demand that health care and pension plans for the casino's 1,000 unionized workers that were terminated in bankruptcy court be restored. Icahn has offered to restore health care, but not to a level the union deems acceptable.Read more on NewsOK.com