Red Rock Resorts has received its final regulatory sign-off for the $780 million Durango Casino and Resort, but members of the Nevada Gaming Commission said Thursday they hope the decadeslong feud between Culinary Workers Local 226 and Station Casinos — Red Rock’s operating subsidiary — will be resolved.
“To see these kinds of disputes are just a little bit troubling to me and hopefully you can work them out,” said commission member Rosa Solis-Rainey before the panel unanimously approved licensing the Durango project ahead of its planned Nov. 20 opening.
During the public comment session during the gaming commission meeting in Las Vegas, Culinary representatives and current and former Station Casinos employees spoke out against the company. A similar action took place two weeks ago at the Gaming Control Board hearing.
The Culinary has been in a more than two-decade feud with the company over union organizing efforts, and gaming commissioners noted there is active litigation pending with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
“We hear the allegations, and they do concern us,” Solis-Rainey said.
During both hearings, Culinary members, who have been seeking union contracts at Station Casinos properties in Las Vegas since the 1990s, said they were not rehired following the pandemic while others said they were targeted after the pandemic for their union-organizing activities.