High Hopes for Hard Rock<\/strong><\/h2>\nEarly signs are promising, though \u2013 1,400 of 1,600 former Trump Taj employees returned this week for interviews at the Hard Rock, but what of former employees of the Atlantic Club, or The Showboat, or The Trump Plaza, who may well be long gone?<\/p>\n
For now, at least, there are reasons to be optimistic for what appears to be the end of a torrid economic decade for the city. Hard Rock president Matt Harkness called it the \u201cfirst brush stroke of the renaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Casino union president Bob McDevitt, no fan of the Trump Taj Mahal, was full of praise for new owners Hard Rock.<\/p>\n
\u201cHard Rock is a good company, and they recognize the fact that the Taj Mahal had an exceptional workforce,\u201d he told the Washington Post. \u201cThose workers gave excellent service for decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Atlantic City\u2019s jobs market is bouncing back, while its unemployment rates are close to pre-recession levels \u2013 and with two new casino resorts scheduled to open this summer, the Hard Rock and Ocean Resort, thousands of new jobs are just over the horizon. The Hard Rock began hiring on Tuesday, interviewing 1,400 former employees of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":68715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Former Trump Taj Workers Flock to Hard Rock for Jobs<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n