Greater than half of the roughly 600 unionized staff at Sundown Station Lodge and On line casino reportedly wish to drop the Culinary Union Native 226 as their labor consultant.
Scott Kreeger, president of Crimson Rock Resorts, pictured above. Employees at one of many firm’s properties reportedly not wish to be represented by the Culinary Union. (Picture: Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal)
The staff are within the strategy of signing a decertification petition, the property’s proprietor, Station Casinos, revealed on Monday. Consequently, the corporate mentioned it withdrew its recognition of the Culinary Union as the employees’ bargaining consultant on the Henderson, Nev. property.
Decertification petitions have been beforehand signed in 2020 by a majority of staff at two of the corporate’s different properties: Boulder Station and Palace Station.
“Simply as our crew members at Boulder Station and Palace Station did earlier than, our crew members at Sundown Station have spoken. Station Casinos respects their resolution and definitely appreciates the boldness that our crew members have positioned in us,” Scott Kreeger, president of Station’s mother or father firm, Crimson Rock Resorts, mentioned in an announcement.
Union Busting Claimed
In an announcement additionally launched on Monday, the Culinary Union claimed Station Casinos is engaged in union busting.
“The Culinary Union will file an unfair labor apply cost relating to the withdrawal and can proceed to demand that the corporate negotiate in good religion in direction of a union contract,” Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge mentioned within the assertion.
Union busting is disgusting, and the Culinary Union urges Station Casinos to do higher,” he added. “Station Casinos has a protracted and shameful historical past of anti-worker conduct, and of dropping.”
In 2019, 83% of Sundown Station staff voted to affix the Culinary Union. At that time, 437 Sundown Station staff took half within the vote.
“That was the one official vote the property ever had and it was overseen by the federal authorities. Employees voted in a landslide majority in favor of unionizing,” Pappageorge mentioned.
Election Should Be Held
To date, staff haven’t taken half in a decertification election. That vote can result in staff formally dropping union affiliation.
Until a majority of the votes forged within the election are in favor of union illustration, the union might be decertified,” in line with data posted on the web site of the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
To carry an election, not less than 30% of the unionized staff should signal playing cards or a petition asking the NLRB to conduct such a vote.
The Culinary Union additional claims the withdrawal of union illustration at Palace Station and Boulder Station in 2020 was unlawful.
Culinary Employees Union Native 226 and Bartenders Union Native 165, symbolize some 60K staff in Las Vegas and Reno. They embrace visitor room attendants, cocktail and meals servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, and laundry and kitchen staff.
