Several hundred casino workers – mostly dealers – yesterday took part in a demonstration organised by the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union (New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association), calling for the government’s stricter enforcement of the anti-smoking law in local casinos.
The protest march, which took about an hour, was headed by the union’s high-profile president Cloee Chao Sao Fong.
The protestors also urged the city’s six gaming operators to explain what they do with “shared tips” – given by gamblers to individual dealers but collected by the companies. Concerning the issue, the union told reporters that the gaming operators have adopted this practice during the last decade or so. The union said that in the early 2000s the operators usually used the shared tips to organise activities for employees, a practice which was later abandoned.
Accompanied by members of the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union, including its president Cloee Chao Sao Fong (third from right), an unidentified representative of the protestors (second from right) hands a petition, addressed to Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, to an official (first from right) outside Government Headquarters yesterday.
Casino workers participating in a protest organised by the New Macau Gaming Workers’ Rights Union walk past Wynn Macau in Nape towards Government Headquarters in Nam Van yesterday afternoon. Photos: Tony Wong
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