A union representing more than 2,000 Caesars Windsor employees, on strike since early April, ratified a new three-year contract Monday to end the dispute and put the casino on track to reopen Thursday.

Unifor Local 444 announced that 75% of the workers voted in favor of the latest contract proposal. The deal, reached late Saturday, was the third such agreement between the casino and union leaders; union members voted down the previous two by small margins.

“We’re going to go down there and clean up our picket sites right away,” union president Dave Cassidy told reporters Monday afternoon once the deal was ratified.

Caesars says it will reopen for business at 11 a.m. Thursday. The entire casino complex, including hotel and concert venue, has been closed since the strike began April 5 and numerous entertainment acts were postponed or canceled.

A list of rescheduled concerts is posted on the casino's website at www.caesars.com/caesars-windsor.

Neither casino nor union representatives could be immediately reached for comment. Information pamphlets about the new contract, photographed by the Windsor Star, say it contains $1,600 signing bonuses and wage increases that average $1,500 in the first year, $1,500 in the second year and $500 in the third year.

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The strike lasted 60 days, outlasting the Caesars Windsor strike in 2004 that went 42 days.

At least two of the three Detroit casinos have seen increased gambling revenues since Caesars closed.

Some casino industry experts say the strike probably dragged on long enough to harm the casino's business in the future.

“Management should be concerned about some measure of erosion or loss of patron loyalty," Alex Calderone, managing director of Birmingham-based Calderone Advisory Group, said last month.

Contact JC Reindl: 313-222-6631 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @JCReindl.