NLRB Orders Station to Deal With Union

Station Casinos’ Palms Casino (l.) in Nevada has been ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to recognize and negotiate an agreement with the Culinary and Bartenders Union. The union successful organized the employees in April 2018.

NLRB Orders Station to Deal With Union

The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Station Casinos’ Palms Casino Resort to cease illegally refusing to recognize the Culinary and Bartenders Union and to begin negotiating with it.

The federal panel official certified the April 2018 union election and unanimously ruled that Station Casinos was in violation of federal law by refusing to recognize and bargain with the union. It added that the casino could not change working conditions before such an agreement is adopted.

Geoconda Argüello-Kline, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union issued this statement: “We demand that Station Casinos recognize their workers’ voices and votes at the Palms and begin contract negotiations in good faith immediately.”