Sunset Station Casino Workers Ask That Culinary Union No Longer Represent Them

More than half of the some 600 unionized workers at Sunset Station Hotel and Casino reportedly require to discharge the Culinary North Local 226 as their proletariat representative.

The employees are in the process of signing a decertification petition, the property’s owner, Station Casinos, revealed on Monday. As a result, the accompany said it withdrew its acknowledgement of the Culinary Union as the workers’ bargaining representative at the Henderson, Nev. property.

Decertification petitions were previously signed inward 2020 by a bulk of workers at II of the company’s other properties: Boulder Station and Palace Station.

“Just as our team members at Boulder Station and Palace Station did before, our team members at Sunset Station hold spoken. Station Casinos respects their conclusion and certainly appreciates the trust that our team up members experience placed in us,” Winfield Scott Kreeger, chairwoman of Station’s parent company, Red Rock Resorts, said inwards a statement.

Union Busting Claimed

In a statement also released on Monday, the Culinary Union claimed Station Casinos is engaged inwards sum busting.

“The Culinary Federal testament filing cabinet an unjust toil pattern electric charge regarding the drug withdrawal and testament keep to exact that the society negotiate in well(p) trust towards a trade union contract,” Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said inwards the statement.

Union busting is disgusting, and the Culinary Federal urges Station Casinos to make out better,” he added. “Station Casinos has a long and shameful account of anti-worker behavior, and of losing.”

In 2019, 83% of Sunset Station workers voted to fall in the Culinary Union. At that point, 437 Sunset Station workers took division inwards the vote.

“That was the only if prescribed voting the property ever so had and it was overseen by the federal government. Workers voted in a landslip majority in favor of unionizing,” Pappageorge said.

Election Must Be Held

So far, workers haven’t taken portion inward a decertification election. That voting canful lead story to workers officially falling join affiliation.

Unless a majority of the votes casting in the election are inward favour of trades union representation, the labor union testament follow decertified,” according to information posted on the website of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

To support an election, at least 30% of the unionized workers must signal cards or a petition asking the NLRB to lead such a vote.

The Culinary Federal further claims the detachment of trades union agency at Palace Station and Boulder Station inwards 2020 was illegal.

Culinary Workers North Local 226 and Bartenders North Local 165, represent some 60K workers in Las Vegas and Reno. They include guest room attendants, cocktail and nutrient servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, and washing and kitchen workers.