The National Casino Employees Association faced the provincial regulator and requested an urgent dialogue table to address their multiple complaints.
Argentina.- The National Casino Employees Association (AECN) sent a letter to the president of the Provincial Institute of Lotteries and Casinos (IPLyC) Buenos Aires, Gonzalo Atanasof, asking the provincial regulator to take urgent measures on the issues raised by the union.
According to AECN, the current scenario of the activity in the province is "catastrophic", which is why they demand urgent measures and the reversal of other changes that have only contributed to the current difficult situation.
"Firstly, it is evident from our point of view the attempt to remove autonomy from the body, which means that to advance in each management, the intervention of various officials and external bodies is required, who do not always certainly have the willingness to act with the speed of each case, much less the commiseration that the problems of the casinos and their workers require. In this context, we encounter two scenarios of positioning of the body: the internal and the external," explains AECN.
According to details, this leads to internal politics creeping into issues that, otherwise, could be resolved more easily and quickly. "Casino tenders and the use of QR codes have advanced at a snail's pace," exemplified by AECN.
This is compounded by other accusations of political interference. According to AECN, in the future transfer of the Ramallo bingo to the town of Escobar, there was also participation of officials outside the sector.
"The lack of economic resources suffered by the IPLyC deeply affects our Casinos. From AECN on countless occasions, we have supplemented the state with our own resources from the workers, to guarantee minimum working conditions: fans, printers, inks, reams of paper, stationery items, drinking water dispensers, bill counters, detector lamps, and even toilet paper are some of the basic supplies we deliver with the sole purpose of ensuring that the casinos continue with their normal activity," added AECN to demonstrate the current state in which they must face their daily work activities and how all this "has a direct impact on the ability to offer services to the betting public, constantly tempted to migrate to online gaming, pushing to the current situation, in which casinos lose competitiveness due to lack of policies that sustain the exploitation of physical gaming."
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