{"id":23257,"date":"2026-06-12T03:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/maryland-ocean-downs-union-seeks-higher-wages-cdc-gaming\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:21:38","slug":"maryland-ocean-downs-union-seeks-higher-wages-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/maryland-ocean-downs-union-seeks-higher-wages-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland: Ocean Downs union seeks higher wages &#8211; CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at Ocean Downs have rejected the latest contract offer from owner Churchill Downs Inc., leaving the casino and its unionized workforce without a new labor agreement ahead of the summer season.<br \/>&#8220;You can&#8217;t tell someone that you respect them and then ask them to work for a sub-living wage,&#8221; said Tracy Lingo, president of Unite Here Local 7, the labor union representing about 100 workers at the casino.<br \/>When negotiations resume Tuesday, it\u2019ll be the 17th time that both sides have met to hash out a new contract since September. Workers have been operating under a contract extension since October.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clicky\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"\/\/in.getclicky.com\/101375624ns.gif\" \/><br \/><em>&copy; 2026 CDC Gaming<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE8ybHAyS0l2bzV6UFo0T3VyOUZQR21TQnZlVEF6ZWFuV3VvT000VFVBeVpmaVBzVmJUcmZSb05URUR5aXZwVU5DYzFtclo1YWJlQW5DUUppcFcyeGlrM29xLWtWdmZnZlVLQVBmMDJ2TXBXdXM1Q3hYS0Z5Qnh5MWM?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workers at Ocean Downs have rejected the latest contract offer from owner Churchill Downs Inc., leaving the casino and its unionized workforce without a new labor agreement ahead of the summer season.&#8220;You can&#8217;t tell someone that you respect them and then ask them to work for a sub-living wage,&#8221; said Tracy Lingo, president of Unite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}