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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumierre sent letters Thursday to representativese of Local 74 and its , announcing a withdrawal of recognition of Local 74. “The union has evinced a lack of continuity of altering the identity of the bargainingt representative and establishing a fundamental change in thebargainintg representatives,” DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumiere wrotre to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Local 74 and Noel Beasleyu of Workers United.
Lumiere started receivingf competing claims about which union was representingv its kitchen andhousekeeping workers, creating confusiom about the official union said Todd George, general manager and vice presideny at Lumiere. “Our hope was that the unionxs would be able to work this outamongst themselves,” he said. “We’re trying to stay out of the middle of thes ecompeting unions.” He said Lumiere notifiex workers Thursday of the company’xs decision to not recognize the union.
As a Local 74 filed unfair labor practicee charges with the National LaborRelations Board, said the organizing director for Local 74, who called Pinnacle'es actions "unlawful" and "ludicrous." “This has been nothing more than an attempyt by (Pinnacle Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the headsw of Pinnacle Entertainment to be anti-union,” he said. Mortoj said the union would consider picketingbut hasn't made any decision s yet. When asked about the possibility of a strike orother action, George said: “We would hope that woulds not be the case, especially in this type of That’s not the way we would like to proceed.
” If there is a Lumiere has a right to replac any workers who walk off the job, according to Mack Bradley, a Lumiere spokesman. Unite HERE was formedr in 2004when Unite, a garment workerxs union, and Hotel Employees and Restauran t Employees Union joined forces. But the marriage wasn’tt a happy one, with garment worker claiming that the newleadership didn’t care about their needs, leadinyg to a lot of disgruntled workers nationwide. So in March, some workeres defected to createWorkers United, which has been competinh with Unite HERE to representf workers nationwide ever since. Locapl 74 voted in March to leave Unite HERE to become a part ofWorkerds United, Morton said.
Workers Unite d is now affiliated withlabor . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: PNK) is based in Las
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