London Grosvenor Casino workers to go on strike casinos may close

London Grosvenor Casino workers have voted in favour of strike action, running from Friday 9 September to Monday 12 September

London Grosvenor Casino workers have voted inward favour of hit action, running from Friday 9 Sept to Monday 12 September.

As a result, casinos crossways Greater London may follow forced to closelipped this weekend, when all members of the Unite sum for gambling casino workers will accept activity to win a amend wage.

The strikes will commence at 18:00 hours on 9 Sep and feed through until 06:00 on 12 September.

Industrial action mechanism will affect Grosvenor Casino’s septet London-based casinos: The Victoria, The Rialto, The Gloucester, The Mungo Park Tower, The Golden Horseshoe, The St Giles and The Barracuda.

The Unite conjugation says that Grosvenor Casinos, component of Rank Group, canful easily open a to a greater extent realistic proffer to its workers, having made profits of £74m ($85.2m) so far this year.

Grosvenor Casino employs around 150 workers crossways its venues, 91% of whom make rejected holding incentive payments offered to them of £600 and £800.

The Unite members lay claim Grosvenor Casino’s extend is poor amid the growing be of living crisis.

Workers go down the go away on scratch are primarily croupiers and dealers, but also include food and drink waiting and kitchen staff.

Unite General Secretary Sharon Martha Graham said: “Here we turn again: Grosvenor Casinos is another bountiful money society that is raking it inwards but refusing to make up its workers a salary that they can buoy live on. It’s just now non acceptable and this Brobdingnagian ballot for action mechanism underscores the sensation of anger crossways this workforce.

“Our members at Grosvenor Casinos testament have got Unite’s replete(p) patronage inwards this fighting for a just deal.”

The union’s National Officer for the Hospitality Sector Dave Turnball added: “Grosvenor Casinos need to read that this workforce is united, and to a greater extent workers are connection Unite every day.

“London is i of the to the highest degree expensive cities on earth for workers to make it in, which is why the subject matter from the members could not be clearer: only if a substantive uplift inwards compensate testament do.

“Grosvenor Casino’s inveterate enlisting and holding issues demonstrate that the electric current compensate rates are just now non sustainable. [Failure to] improve pay off is just now not an option.”

Gambling Insider has reached come out to Rank Group (Grosvenor's parent company) for comment.