Despite a Trump-appointed majority on the National Labor Relations Board, it ruled against Station Casinos, voting unanimously that the company had failed to recognize and bargain with the Culinary Union vis-a-vis the Palms. 
“By failing and refusing since May 17 to recognize and bargain with the Union as the exclusive collective bargaining representative of the employees in the appropriate unit, the Respondent has engaged in unfair labor practices … we shall order it to cease and desist, to bargain on request with the Union, and, if an understanding is reached, to embody the understanding in a signed agreement. To ensure that the employees are accorded the services of their selected bargaining agent for the period provided by law, we shall construe the initial period of the certification as beginning on the date the Respondent begins to bargain in good faith with the Union.” decreed the NLRB.
Despite an 84% “yes” vote at the Palms, Station is proclaiming its determination to keep fighting the outcome in the courts. Station has a bad habit of talking out of both sides of its mouth on unionization, making frequent public statements like “We have always recognized our team members’ right to be represented by a union if they so choose,” then fighting unionization to the last ditch. How the 900 affected Palms workers are supposed to take this latest affront and yet be happy campers is a question that Station brass is begging,
* Yesterday was a ‘win’ for Elon Musk, whose proposed people mover under the Las Vegas Convention Center was approved. It’s a loss for Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who opposed the system. If Musk pulls this thing off on schedule and budget it could change much of the thinking about mass transit in Sin City.
