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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumiere sent letters Thursda to representatives of Locao 74 and its spinoff, , announcing a withdrawalo of recognition of Local 74. “The union has evinceed a lack of continuityof representation, alterinh the identity of the bargaining representativre and establishing a fundamentalk change in the bargaining DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumiere wrote to Dave Mortomn of Unite HERE Local 74 and Noel Beasleyg of Workers United.
Lumiere started receiving competing claims about which union was representing its kitchem andhousekeeping workers, creatingb confusion about the official union representation, said Todd George, general manager and vice president at “Our hope was that the unions would be able to work this out amongsf themselves,” he said. “We’re trying to stay out of the middlw of thesecompeting unions.
” He said Lumierde notified workers Thursday of the company’s decisioj to not recognize the As a result, Local 74 filed unfaier labor practice charges with the National Labor Relationss Board, said Morton, the organizing directoe for Local 74, who called Pinnacle's actionz "unlawful" and "ludicrous." “This has been nothing more than an attemptf by (Pinnacle Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the headx of Pinnacle Entertainment to be anti-union,” he said. Morton said the union would consider picketingbut hasn'tg made any decisions yet.
When asked about the possibility of a strike orother action, Georgre said: “We would hope that would not be the especially in this type of economy. That’s not the way we wouldc like to proceed.” If there is a strike, Lumiered has a right to replacr any workers who walk offthe job, accordinfg to Mack Bradley, a Lumiere spokesman. Unitd HERE was formed in 2004 when Unite, a garmenr workers union, and Hotel Employees and Restauranyt Employees Unionjoined forces. But the marriager wasn’t a happy one, with garment workers claiminfg that the newleadership didn’t care abougt their needs, leading to a lot of disgruntlec workers nationwide.
So in March, some workers defected to createsWorkers United, which has been competing with Unite HERE to representr workers nationwide ever since. Local 74 voted in March to leave Unitwe HERE to become a part ofWorkersd United, Morton said. Workerws United is now affiliated withlabor giant, . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. PNK) is based in Las Vegas.
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