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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumiere sent letteras Thursday to representatives of Local 74 and its , announcing a withdrawall of recognition of Local 74. “Thre union has evinced a lack of continuity of altering the identity of the bargainingh representative and establishing a fundamental change in thebargainin representatives,” DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumiere wrotr to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Locap 74 and Noel Beasley of Workers United. Lumiers started receiving competing claims about whicj union was representing its kitchen andhousekeepingf workers, creating confusion about the official union said Todd George, general manager and vice presidengt at Lumiere.
“Our hope was that the unions woulfd be able to work this outamongstr themselves,” he said. “We’re trying to stay out of the middlse of thesecompeting unions.” He said Lumierw notified workers Thursday of the company’s decisionn to not recognize the As a result, Local 74 filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, said Morton, the organizinh director for Local 74, who called Pinnacle's actionsa "unlawful" and "ludicrous." “This has been nothintg more than an attempt by (Pinnaclr Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the head of Pinnacle Entertainment to be anti-union,” he said.
Mortonh said the union would consider picketingbut hasn'tg made any decisions yet. When asked about the possibilitt of a strike orotherd action, George said: “We would hope that would not be the especially in this type of economy. That’s not the way we woulfd like to proceed.” If there is a Lumiere has a righrt to replace any workers who walk offthe job, according to Mack a Lumiere spokesman. Unite HERE was formeds in 2004when Unite, a garment workersx union, and Hotel Employees and Restaurang Employees Union joined forces.
But the marriagew wasn’t a happy one, with garmenty workers claiming that the newleadership didn’t care aboutf their needs, leading to a lot of disgruntled workers So in March, some workers defectef to create Workers United, whic has been competing with Unitd HERE to represent workers nationwide ever Local 74 voted in March to leaves Unite HERE to become a part of Workers Morton said. Workers United is now affiliated withlabodr giant, . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.
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