The Silencing of Workers’ VoicesIt is critical that we all join forces
We all have seen it play out in the news. We have heard about it from friends and family. In Nevada, we had a pretty good taste of this movement during the legislative session and are experiencing our fair share in our contract fight with CCSD. Wish these were isolated instances, but the truth is that the movement to silence employees’ voices, to end workers’ collective bargaining rights, will continue to gain momentum unless we band together.
Banding together to protect our collective voices is what we are doing. As we continue to build alliances, it is critical that we support each another. One of the country’s largest private sector organizing drives is happening right here, in Las Vegas. That’s right! It is happening between the Culinary Union and Station Casinos. Below are some highlights of the struggle to protect workers’ voices:
• Station Casinos workers have had enough. In February, 2010, Station Casinos workers decided to stand up against the company’s unfair treatment of the rank-and-file. They have publicly demanded the company let them organize freely and decide for themselves whether to unionize. Major gaming companies on the Strip and Downtown have provided similar opportunities to their employees for them to decide on the issue of unionization on their own without management interference or intimidation.
• Station Casinos workers are fighting against Wall Street and billionaires. Workers at Station Casinos – many of them Latino immigrants – continue to fight for their legal right to decide whether to organize into unions. They are seeking to realize their “Las Vegas Dream”: job security, free healthcare, a pension, ability to buy a home, and decent wages that will one day make it possible to send their kids to college. But the Las Vegas Dream is under attack by the vehemently anti-union Station Casinos, which is owned by Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, as well as the billionaire Fertitta brothers.
• Station Casinos’ attacks on workers and their right to organize have made it the worst violator of labor law in the history of the Nevada gaming industry. In response to the workers’ demand, Station Casinos has launched a vicious anti-union campaign, which prompted the U.S. government’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to file complaints against the company for violations of federal labor law. The company was found guilty of 87 separate labor violations in a recommended decision by an NLRB Administrative Law Judge. The judge found that Station Casinos terminated, disciplined, threatened, interrogated, bribed (by promising benefits) and spied on its employees who were organizing for the union. Station is appealing the decision.
Visit www.workerstation.org to learn more about this fight. Meanwhile, we ask that you support our Culinary friends and not patronize Station Casinos. And when we issue a call to action, join in — because together we will prevail!
We all have seen it play out in the news. We have heard about it from friends and family. In Nevada, we had a pretty good taste of this movement during the legislative session and are experiencing our fair share in our contract fight with CCSD. Wish these were isolated instances, but the truth is that the movement to silence employees’ voices, to end workers’ collective bargaining rights, will continue to gain momentum unless we band together.
Banding together to protect our collective voices is what we are doing. As we continue to build alliances, it is critical that we support each another. One of the country’s largest private sector organizing drives is happening right here, in Las Vegas. That’s right! It is happening between the Culinary Union and Station Casinos. Below are some highlights of the struggle to protect workers’ voices:
• Station Casinos workers have had enough. In February, 2010, Station Casinos workers decided to stand up against the company’s unfair treatment of the rank-and-file. They have publicly demanded the company let them organize freely and decide for themselves whether to unionize. Major gaming companies on the Strip and Downtown have provided similar opportunities to their employees for them to decide on the issue of unionization on their own without management interference or intimidation.
• Station Casinos workers are fighting against Wall Street and billionaires. Workers at Station Casinos – many of them Latino immigrants – continue to fight for their legal right to decide whether to organize into unions. They are seeking to realize their “Las Vegas Dream”: job security, free healthcare, a pension, ability to buy a home, and decent wages that will one day make it possible to send their kids to college. But the Las Vegas Dream is under attack by the vehemently anti-union Station Casinos, which is owned by Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, as well as the billionaire Fertitta brothers.
• Station Casinos’ attacks on workers and their right to organize have made it the worst violator of labor law in the history of the Nevada gaming industry. In response to the workers’ demand, Station Casinos has launched a vicious anti-union campaign, which prompted the U.S. government’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to file complaints against the company for violations of federal labor law. The company was found guilty of 87 separate labor violations in a recommended decision by an NLRB Administrative Law Judge. The judge found that Station Casinos terminated, disciplined, threatened, interrogated, bribed (by promising benefits) and spied on its employees who were organizing for the union. Station is appealing the decision.
Visit www.workerstation.org to learn more about this fight. Meanwhile, we ask that you support our Culinary friends and not patronize Station Casinos. And when we issue a call to action, join in — because together we will prevail!