{"id":8353,"date":"2012-01-24T15:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8353"},"modified":"2012-01-24T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T23:45:27","slug":"when-executives-attack-the-quickening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/when-executives-attack-the-quickening\/","title":{"rendered":"When executives attack: The Quickening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"231\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/media.lasvegassun.com\/media\/assets\/swf\/mvc_video_2.1.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"sunplayer\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"&amp;debug=false&amp;preroll=false&amp;share=false&amp;embed=false&amp;download=false&amp;width=410&amp;height=231&amp;mainColor=0xFF9A03&amp;videopath_flv=https:\/\/cdn.video.lasvegassun.com\/media\/video\/2012\/01\/20120119_ralston.flv&amp;videopath_photo=https:\/\/media.lasvegassun.com\/media\/img\/videothumbs\/2012\/01\/20\/20120119_ralston_web.jpg&amp;embedded=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/media.lasvegassun.com\/media\/assets\/swf\/mvc_video_2.1.swf\" flashvars=\"&amp;debug=false&amp;preroll=false&amp;share=false&amp;embed=false&amp;download=false&amp;width=410&amp;height=231&amp;mainColor=0xFF9A03&amp;videopath_flv=https:\/\/cdn.video.lasvegassun.com\/media\/video\/2012\/01\/20120119_ralston.flv&amp;videopath_photo=https:\/\/media.lasvegassun.com\/media\/img\/videothumbs\/2012\/01\/20\/20120119_ralston_web.jpg&amp;embedded=true\" align=\"middle\" name=\"sunplayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" quality=\"high\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>OK, you&#8217;ve heard the sound bites, read the correspondence, seen the over-the-top tactics. Now <strong>Station Casinos<\/strong> and the <strong>Culinary Union<\/strong> have to make their case to a higher authority: <strong>Jon Ralston<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Historical footnote<\/em>: When <strong>Ameristar Casinos<\/strong> bought Station out of a sticky wicket in <strong>Missouri<\/strong>, <!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinocitytimes.com\/news\/article\/station-to-retain-reserve-workers-118035\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">it wielded sufficient clout to protect the employees<\/a> of <strong>The Reserve<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casinocitytimes.com\/news\/article\/station-casinos-and-ameristar-enter-deal-123328\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">which was traded to Station<\/a> and is now known as <strong>Fiesta Henderson<\/strong>. Workers at <strong>George Maloof<\/strong>&#8216;s original <strong>Fiesta<\/strong> were not so lucky and those at <strong>Archon Corp<\/strong>.&#8217;s <strong>Santa Fe<\/strong> were SOL when Station bought those properties.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, you&#8217;ve heard the sound bites, read the correspondence, seen the over-the-top tactics. Now Station Casinos and the Culinary Union have to make their case to a higher authority: Jon Ralston. (Historical footnote: When Ameristar Casinos bought Station out of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/when-executives-attack-the-quickening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,46,88,151,64,39,78,57,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8355,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions\/8355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}