Station Casinos Holds Protest Outside Culinary Union, Las Vegas Labor Group Laughs It Off

Station Casinos staged a pale yesterday afternoon out of doors the Culinary Union’s downtown office inwards Las Vegas to vocalism the cassino company’s frustrations with the fag group.

Roughly 100 Station Casinos employees, the bulk beingness supervisors and management personnel, protested alfresco the Commerce St. conjugation headquarters. The marchers wore “Respect the Votes” t-shirts and held signs indication messages such as “We Despise Federal Lies,” “Local 226 Lie: Job Security — 307,000 Members — No Work/No Pay,” “Station Benefits: FREE Health Care, Medical Centers, Retirement Plan.”

An on-going labor difference betwixt Station Casinos and the Culinary Workers Federal Local 226 remains inward sound limbo. The jointure claims the cassino keep company has interfered with unionisation efforts at as many as 10 properties, including Red River John Rock Resort, Boulder Station, and Palace Station.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is manipulation the case. In the meantime, a federal territorial dominion homage judge has ordered Station Casinos to commence ahead of time negotiations with the casino union, something the fellowship says would outcome inwards “irreparable harm.”

As has already been reported, inward the cobbler's last year, a majority of Team Members at both Palace Station and Boulder Station flat-out rejected the Culinary Union. The Culinary Union has refused to take that outcome and has filed charges with the NLRB to opposite the decisions,” a fellowship statement declared.

“The Company demands that the Culinary Union value and kibosh trying to tump over the wishes of the Palace and Boulder Team Members,” the outlet added.

Union Pans Picket

Station Casinos’ William Ashley Sunday afternoon protestation inward scolding temperatures nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit was ridiculed past brotherhood leaders. Geoconda Argüello-Kline, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union, called the Station Casinos demo nada to a greater extent than a “publicity stunt.”

“It seems that Station Casinos is simply trying to get public attending to the wide-ranging allegations of legal misconduct it faces,” Argüello-Kline opined. “In our nearly ennead decades of organizing, the Culinary Union has never seen troupe managers or supervisors pale — especially on their solar day away when it is 99 degrees outside. We hope that they stick hydrated and coolheaded today.”

Culinary representative Bethany Louis Isadore Kahn found the resist comical.

BWAHHAHAA! I literally laughed when a newsman called to tell me that this was happening. It's at present 100 degrees and #StationCasinos literally bussed their managers and supervisors over to picket the Culinary Union. On a Sunday. When no I is there. HILARIOUS! $RRR https://t.co/RpElshbLKc

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ethany Khan (@BethanyKhan) August 22, 2021

The Station protestors, however, found no more humour inwards the demonstration.

“We’re here to get off a substance to the Culinary Federal to lead us alone,” Hernan Andrade, theatre director of intragroup maintenance at Red River John Rock Resort, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “Team members are furious. They just don’t want a union.”

Station also rejected claims that the picket only if included supervisors and management-level employees. Station said the march was accompanied past “hourly Team Members who make voluntarily united the dissent on their possess time.”

Case Continues

The NLRB retrospect essentially boils down pat(p) to whether Station Casinos has repeatedly increased employee benefits at its casinos beforehand of employee votes to unionize.

Culinary officials and NLRB Regional Director Cornele Overstreet indicate that Station’s do good bumps hold wrongly influenced unionisation vote outcomes. Overstreet also contends that Station Casinos “engaged inward a connive to employment layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine unions representing or seeking to correspond their employees.”

Station rejects those allegations, arguing that Overstreet is “biased and unfair” inward her assessments.