Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) - Hoping they can convince at least one more city council member that a temporary ban on smoking in the casinos is working, casino workers are pushing to make the ban permanent. The council voted 5-4 last week to delay the ban for one year due to the economic crisis. But with a final vote scheduled for Monday on the council's stated intent to delay the ban...

After winning the right to represent casino dealers at two major Strip resorts last year, the Transport Workers Union of America is taking its organizing effort to the next level. The union, which is working to bolster a fledgling gaming division here, plans to announce Monday that it is launching a public campaign urging card players to tip their dealers. The campaign will feature a Web site, billboards, and print and Internet advertising.

Casino dealers, frustrated that Nevada lawmakers wouldn't help them reverse Steve Wynn's controversial tip-sharing policy, are preparing to take their case to the voters. A group of Wynn Las Vegas dealers, working outside of their new labor union, says it will begin circulating petitions next year to qualify a voter initiative aimed at prohibiting a company from forcing rank-and-file dealers to share tips with supervisors.

One day after a vast majority of its casino dealing force cast ballots in favor of union representation, Wynn Las Vegas executives seemed resigned to negotiating a collective bargaining agreement with the New York-based labor organization that will speak for the workers. The National Labor Relations Board has until next week to certify the results of the weekend election at Wynn Las Vegas, where dealers, in a vote of 444-149, asked to be represented by the Transport Workers Union of America.