Gavin Isaacs, Bally’s Executive Vice President and COO detailed the strategy of the company for the Asian industry and what products the firm decided to bring specially for this growing sector. He also analyzes the future of the slot machines in a market where, currently, they don’t seem to be so popular. How is Bally positioned here? If I’m not wrong, the company signed a couple of important deals with operators, so how is it positioned in Macau and in Asia in general?
Las Vegas - The company immortalized in The Who's 1969 song, "Pinball Wizard," has turned a wizened 75 - and perhaps more importantly turned the corner in its return to its game maker roots. Bally Technologies Inc., mentioned in the Pete Townshend lyric, "the Bally table king," celebrated its diamond anniversary last week at a Playboy-inspired villa at The Palms casino-hotel by unveiling a new digital-mechanical slot machine.
Atlantic City,New Jersey - Casino dealers at Bally’s Atlantic City voted emphatically in favor of forming a union Sunday in what both sides considered a pivotal vote in the unionization effort at the resort city’s 11 casinos. The vote by full- and part-time dealers, dual-rate dealers, keno and simulcast employees was 628-255 in favor of becoming part of the United Auto Workers union.
More than 1,400 dealers and security guards at Bally's Atlantic City will vote today and Sunday in separate union elections. Approximately 1,200 full- and part-time dealers, dual-rate dealers, keno and simulcast employees will decide today whether they wish to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. The National Labor Relations Board-supervised election will be held in the Claridge Ballroom on the sixth floor from 7 to 9:30 a.m., 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 1.30 a.m. Sunday.
Atlantic City – In another sign of a growing movement for workplace rights in Atlantic City casinos, dealers at Bally’s Casino today filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union representation election. Workers at Bally’s are now the fourth group of casino dealers who have taken steps to form unions as part of the UAW, the only union in America that currently represents dealers in the gaming industry.
