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Suffolk OTB workers accept pay lag
Suffolk Off-Track Betting Corp. workers voted to take a lag payroll to keep the agency afloat while officials try to extricate themsleves from bankruptcy and build an electronic slot machine casino.Philip Nolan, OTB president, said unionized workers voted by a 2-1 margin which will save the agency $300,000 by skipping one two-week pay period. The 200 workers and managers affected will get their delayed salary when they leave or retire from OTB at whatever rate of pay they are making at that time.
The move comes as OTB officials are next scheduled to go to bankruptcy court April 9 where the agency will seek approval of the new contract with gaming firm Delaware North, to construct the 1,000 slot machine casino. Meanwhile, the Republican co-led State Senate has included in its one house budget another 1,000 more machines each for Nassau and Suffolk.
Joseph Cairo, Nassau OTB President, sees a better than 50-50 chance the extra machines will make the final budget. However, Vanessa Baird Streeter, a spokeswoman for County Executive Steve Bellone, said additional machines “may be a bit premature” until the already approved machines are in operation.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
OTB Presidents should have to work as cashiers in the Green Acres Branch of Nassau OTB to get a feel for the real world?
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