Station Casinos employees protest outside Culinary union office

About 100 supervisors from Station Casinos marched successful beforehand of the Culinary union’s downtown bureau for astir an hour Sunday successful a protestation that Culinary Local 226 called a “publicity stunt” — the latest clash amid a decade-long labour fight betwixt the two.

Station Casinos said successful a play connection that the Culinary national “has refused to accept” that its employees astatine Palace Station and Boulder Station rejected the national past year.

“We despise national lies,” the radical chanted Sunday arsenic they marched, wearing teal shirts that read, “Respect their votes, permission squad members alone.”

“No means no,” the chants continued.

April allegations

After employees signed petitions to cull the union, the National Labor Relations Board successful April accused Station Casinos of unlawfully utilizing the pandemic to undermine unions and power employees to propulsion for decertification.

Employees astatine neither spot held a decertification ballot – the process by which a national disbands – to permission Culinary, the national has said.

Cornele Overstreet, a determination manager for the board, alleged successful a 92-page complaint astatine the clip that Station Casinos “engaged successful a strategy to usage layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine unions representing oregon seeking to correspond their employees,” a merchandise said.

A spokesperson for Red Rock Resorts, Station Casinos’ genitor company, said successful a connection astatine the clip that Station Casinos “rejects the biased and unfair allegations” of the labour board’s determination director.

Ahead of the Sunday protest, which began astatine 4 p.m., a Station Casinos spokesperson said successful a connection that the institution “is warring backmost connected behalf of its Team Members by challenging those charges.”

“The Company demands that the Culinary Union respect and halt trying to overturn the wishes of the Palace and Boulder Team Members,” the connection continued.

‘Leave america alone’

The Culinary national successful a connection called the protestation Sunday a “publicity stunt,” noting that it took spot astatine a clip erstwhile the union’s bureau was closed.

“Here, it seems that Station Casinos is simply trying to bring nationalist attraction to the wide-ranging allegations of ineligible misconduct it faces,” Geoconda Argüello-Kline, the union’s secretary-treasurer, said successful the statement. “In our astir 9 decades of organizing, the Culinary Union has ne'er seen institution managers oregon supervisors picket — particularly connected their time disconnected erstwhile it is 99 degrees outside. We anticipation that they enactment hydrated and chill today.”

Hernan Andrade, manager of interior attraction for Red Rock Resort, said squad members astatine his casino are “furious” with Culinary Union.

“We’re retired present to nonstop a message,” Andrade said astatine the Sunday protest. “A connection to the national to conscionable permission america alone.”

A proceedings connected the ailment is scheduled to statesman earlier a National Labor Relations Board justice connected Aug. 31.

In a abstracted case, U.S. District Court Judge Gloria Navarro ruled past month that Red Rock Resorts illegally influenced the result of a 2019 national predetermination wrong the company.

The institution was ordered to negociate with the national for employees astatine Red Rock Resort.

Contact Alexis Ford astatine aford@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0335. Follow @alexisdford connected Twitter. Review-Journal unit writer Mike Shoro contributed to this report.