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Press conference: Station Casinos ON TRIAL for union discrimination

Culinary Union press conference: Station Casinos on trial for union discrimination in one of largest labor law enforcement actions in US history, NLRB hearing begins Tuesday in Las Vegas - Las Vegas, NV - Station Casinos will be on trial for union discrimination beginning this week - Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are 39 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) hearing days scheduled for 2024 in which the government will be prosecuting the case against Station Casinos’ allegedly illegal anti-union conduct in its campaign to defeat their own employees’ choice to unionize. The trial will cover the NLRB’s General Counsel’s allegations that Station Casinos used COVID-19 layoffs to undermine worker’s efforts to unionize and that it unlawfully withdrew recognition from the union as bargaining representative for employees at Boulder Station and Palace Station in August and September 2020. The complaint, issued April 13, 2021, alleges that Station Casinos engaged in unilateral actions such as layoffs, terminations, implementing new health and safety standards, and other workplace changes without bargaining over them, and that the company’s unlawful actions against its own employees were discriminatory, aimed at weakening union support. “We look forward to the federal government making the case beginning this week against Station Casinos and its properties for their shameful anti-union and anti-worker behavior, for workers being heard as they testify in the hearing about how they were discriminated against, and for justice to be reached,” said Ted Pappageorge, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union. “We are confident that the government will find that Station Casinos violated the law, just as it recently found that Red Rock Casino violated the law. It’s shocking to see a major gaming company behaving very badly in the Nevada gaming industry. Even as the Gaming Control Board does nothing about one of their licensees (who holds a privileged gaming license), the company will be held accountable by the federal government starting with the hearing this week. Culinary Union is also doing outreach to Station Casinos partners which include celebrity chef Marc Vetri, Blue Ribbon Restaurants, and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. These partners need to know that Station Casinos continues to be outlier in the Nevada gaming industry for the way that they treat its workers."