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A Daily News investigation has found that although the Resorts World Casino New York City may be raking in money for the state, it is falling short in terms of taking care of its own backyard.
The report showed that the South Ozone Park facility employs only 60.2% of its staff from Queens and that residents do not get a proportionate share of high-ranking management jobs — considerably less than promised before it opened.
That means that the company fell short of the promise made in June 2011, when it publicly pledged that 70% to 80% of the staff would be hired from Queens.
In job growth, that translates to 181 to 365 fewer jobs, and at an average salary of $30,000 a year, a 10% shortfall means $5.4 million in lost wages for Queens residents, according to the Daily News analysis.
In this economy, that is vital for many struggling families, who are making hard choices about whether to pay their mortgages, the escalating water bills and taxes or put food on the table. We should not be forced to make these choices.
The vicious cycle of home foreclosures and unemployment will only increase crime in our neighborhoods. The economic revitalization of our local economy needs a jump-start, and Resorts World can provide that impetus.
Resorts World also promised to give 1% of its net profits to area nonprofit and service organizations. Senior, community and youth centers, religious and cultural organizations, historical societies, block associations, veterans groups, and development corporations — such as Greater Woodhaven’s — would surely like to see them fulfill their promises.
As a community advocate and district leader who serves the Ozone Park, South Ozone Park and Richmond Hill area, we would like to thank the Daily News for its revelations, and call upon Resorts World to fix these problems — bearing in mind the great diversity of residents.
We have heard many complaints that some job seekers have not even received the courtesy of a reply in reference to their applications. Perhaps a small but visible area can be designated to assist prospective job applicants, together with outreach efforts.
Many of my constituents were painfully displaced when the Aqueduct Flea Market was closed after decades of existence at this facility, a casualty of Resorts World’s expansion. They then applied for the most basic jobs — clerks, janitors, security guards, cooks, waiters and porters. Yet, they were ignored.
Their story has been poignantly memorialized on You Tube in a video entitled “Racino — The End of an American Dream.” The Indo-Caribbean Alliance captured the personal tragedy of the 500 small business owners who were abruptly displaced from the then Aqueduct Racetrack before Genting and Resorts World took charge.
Ironically, they are regular patrons and very much part of the loyal base of gamers who have helped Resorts World earn its impressive $476 million gross as of August since its opening.
We suggest that hiring policies and data be made more open and accessible to all, that more information about job vacancies and hires be made public and more user friendly to the surrounding communities. We should not have to resort to a Freedom of Information Act request to get that information.
Research has indicated that labor negotiations with the New York Hotel Trades Council Union and other relevant unions which organize to protect workers’ rights, including prevailing wages and collective bargaining, have not yet been finalized. Resorts World should bring us up to date on this important labor and industrial issue.
As the pawn shops proliferate around Resorts World, where are the measures promised to help gambling addicts?
We have seen some disgruntled patrons beat up on some machines, whereas some indulge in a lonely, sad vigil, miraculously hoping to see their lost money return to them somehow.
While we are appreciative that the area’s development has generated some jobs and economic benefits, we are also concerned about quality of life issues.
We do not want our neighborhood to be converted into a parking lot for Resort World’s customers, and we will be vigilant that issues such as crime, prostitution, graffiti, traffic congestion, noise, sanitation and the other concomitant evils associated with these vices do not overburden our community.
Lost somewhere in Resorts World’s financial boom, is that guiding principle that charity begins at home. They need to find it. It makes no sense for anyone, that, while they flourish as a financial behemoth, our neighborhood is reduced to a shantytown. We cannot let another Atlantic City be spawned in our own backyard — or anywhere else for that matter.
There are more than 300,000 residents who are most impacted in our area of Ozone Park, South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, Lindenwood and Howard Beach, and they need information and solutions to these issues.
Albert Baldeo is a community advocate in Southern Queens and district leader in the 38th AD.
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