Station Casinos hindering unfair labor practice case, board claims

The National Labor Relations Board says that Station Casinos is hindering an ongoing unfair labour signifier lawsuit against the Las Vegas gaming giant. Now the committee is asking a national tribunal to measurement in.

The labour relations committee connected Friday claimed successful a filing successful U.S. District Court successful Nevada that Station Casinos has “not provided a important information of subpoenaed documents” and that the institution is “deliberately evading” its duties to bash so.

The company’s refusal to crook implicit the documents requested “is impeding the Board’s proceedings successful matters earlier it and has prevented the Board from carrying retired its duties and functions,” the committee argued successful the filing..

Station Casinos tried to quash astir 150 circumstantial requests for documents. But an administrative instrumentality justice overseeing the unfair labour practices lawsuit denied that petition connected Sept. 3 and ordered the institution to nutrient the documents immediately.

Despite that order, lone a fistful of the subpoenaed documents person been turned over, according to the filing.

The institution has “continued to supply a trickle of documents connected a rolling basis, with a important fig of anticipated documents yet to beryllium produced,” the committee wrote.

Red Rock Resorts, the genitor institution of Station Casinos, did not respond to requests for remark Tuesday.

The filing stems from a ailment filed successful April successful which the committee accused Station Casinos of utilizing the pandemic to discriminatorily laic off, terminate, recall, rehire oregon transportation employees to undermine national efforts and power employees to propulsion for decertification.

The committee besides accused the institution of galore unfair labour practices dating backmost to March 2018, including the promising and granting of benefits to employees to discourage enactment for the national and punishing employees for taking portion successful national activities.

The NLRB ailment is simply a consolidation of much than 60 unfair labour signifier cases filed with the committee since September 2018 and the latest section successful the long-running quality betwixt the Culinary Union and Station Casinos.

A national justice successful July ordered that Red Rock indispensable negociate successful bully religion with the union, a decision that has gone to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The appeals tribunal lawsuit is pending.

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