Roughly 3,000 workers will lose their jobs when the casino closes. | Getty Trump Taj Mahal casino to close after Labor Day

Another one of Donald Trump's past business ventures is closing.

The Trump Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, which Trump opened in 1990 and is now owned by his friend Carl Icahn, will shut down after Labor Day, the owners announced Wednesday. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, once hailed the casino as the “eighth wonder of the world.”


The Taj Mahal will close in the midst of the longest strike in the 38-year history of Atlantic City's casino era. Roughly 3,000 workers will lose their jobs when the casino closes.

"Currently the Taj is losing multi-millions a month, and now with this strike, we see no path to profitability," Tony Rodio, president and CEO of Tropicana Entertainment, said in a statement.

Local union workers began their strike on July 1 over disagreements about pensions and health care.

"Even if the Union accepted what we previously offered, which included the UniteHere healthcare plan we were led to believe they wanted, we would still be losing significant amounts each month, but at least there would be hope," Rodio said.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has slammed Trump’s business record in Atlantic City, where he once owned three casinos.

“Donald Trump says he’s qualified for president because of his business record,” Clinton said at a rally in July. “What he did for his business and workers is nothing to brag about. In fact, it’s shameful. And every single voter in America needs to know about it, so he won’t do to our country what he did to Atlantic City.”

For his part, Trump placed the blamed on Democratic officials.

"Hillary Clinton should ask why the Democrat pols in Atlantic City made all the wrong moves - Convention Center, Airport - and destroyed City," he tweeted before Clinton’s July speech. "Even the once great Caesars is bankrupt in A.C. Others to follow. Ask the Democrat City Council what happened to Atlantic City."

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Chuck Baker, who has worked as a cook at the casino for 26 years, said Trump is responsible for the continuing troubles with the casino. Baker said although the casino was profitable at first, Trump put the casino through three bankruptcies.

"It came as a sudden shock. We hadn’t expected this" he told POLITICO about the closure. "All Ichan had to do was give the workers a fair and decent contract."