National Labor Relations Board

Over 50% of Red Rock Resort employees reject joining local culinary union

December 29, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Las Vegas, Labor Relations

Red Rock Resorts Inc. has announced that the employees of their Red Rock Casino in Las Vegas have voted no to joining the local culinary union. Over 84% of the employees took part in a secret ballot over severa...

Casino employees of Las Vegas picket The Palms

Marie Kelley

June 27, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Las Vegas, Labor Relations, Nevada

Over 1,000 individuals associated with the casino workers’ union and other hospitality union groups in Las Vegas were outside the Palms Casino last night to picket, demanding managers of the Station Casinos bar...

Fiesta Rancho Hotel and Casino workers vote to unionize in Las Vegas

Adam Morgan

June 17, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Las Vegas, Employment & Careers, Labor Relations

In Nevada and the Local 226 branch of the Culinary Workers Union has announced that last week saw workers inside the Fiesta Rancho Hotel and Casino follow compatriots at five other sister venues in voting to un...

Casino-operating California tribe fails to have labor sovereignty appeal heard

Adam Morgan

May 21, 2019

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Gaming Law & Legislation, Tribal Gaming, Casino News, California, Employment & Careers, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation

In southern California, the Pauma Band of Luiseno Indians has reportedly failed in its attempt to get the United States Supreme Court to reconsider a lower court’s ruling that tied workers at its Casino Pauma t...

Palms Casino Resort Spa workers vote to unionize

Adam Morgan

April 30, 2018

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Las Vegas, Employment & Careers, Labor Relations

In Las Vegas, workers at the Palms Casino Resort Spa have reportedly overwhelmingly voted to unionize and are now set to be represented by the Local 165 branch of the Bartenders Union and the Local 226 chapter ...

Station Casinos agrees to settlement; Palace Station now unionized

K Morrison

March 16, 2017

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Las Vegas, Labor Relations

Station Casinos, a subsidiary of Red Rock Resorts, Inc. (NASDAQ: RRR), has reportedly agreed to a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), making Palace Station the second Las Vegas hotel-casi...

Las Vegas Sands Corporation in negotiations to offload Pennsylvania casino

Adam Morgan

March 3, 2017

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, Mergers, Acquisitions & Partnerships, Labor Relations, Pennsylvania

In the midst of planning an $800 million redevelopment of its Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem property, operator Las Vegas Sands Corporation has reportedly told employees at the Pennsylvania venue that the casino...

Las Vegas Sands Corporation casino workers make history in Bethlehem

Adam Morgan

February 23, 2017

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, Pennsylvania

In Pennsylvania, a group of security guards at the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem reportedly made history on Wednesday after becoming the first unionized workers to be recognized by American casino giant Las Veg...

Decision facing Supreme Court; asked to rule on Trump casino bankruptcy

K Morrison

May 31, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Bankruptcy, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, New Jersey

Whether or not to restore the pension and health benefits of more than 1,000 casino workers at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City is the decision the Supreme Court is being asked to make in the ongoing bankru...

National Labor Relation Board files federal complaint against Ameristar Casino East Chicago

Marie Kelley

March 26, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Labor Relations, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Indiana

The Ameristar Casino of East Chicago has been accused to breaking over 20 labor law violations in a federal complaint filed by the National Labor Relation Board. The Chicago Regional Office filed the charges an...

Taj Mahal takeover could be sidetracked based on Local 54 appeal

K Morrison

February 15, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Bankruptcy, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, New Jersey

If the U.S. Supreme Court is asked by a union to review a case over pension and health benefits rescinded from casino workers, plans for the Trump Taj Mahal to rise from the depths of bankruptcy under new owner...

Union vote delayed for Tunica casino worker amid pressure charges

K Morrison

January 11, 2016

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino News, North America Casino News, Gaming Industry News, Labor Relations, Mississippi

Dealers at the MGM Gold Strike Casino in Tunica County won’t be voting on unionization just yet, due to charges that federal law was broken by MGM Resorts International while campaigning against union represent...

Congress passes tribal sovereignty act

K Morrison

November 18, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Gaming Law & Legislation, Tribal Gaming, Casino News, North America Casino News, Gaming Industry News

Yesterday, in a 249-177 majority vote, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015, that prohibits the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from intervention in tribal affairs, mainly gaming facilities, was passe...

Tribal labor rulings headed to Supreme Court?

Lars Jones

June 11, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Labor Relations, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Michigan

American Indian tribes have long contended that business conducted on tribal lands is sovereign and not subject to federal labor laws. Last week on June 4th the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seemed to a...

Chickasaws prevail in major labor ruling

Lars Jones

June 6, 2015

Latest Casino and Gambling News, Tribal Gaming, Labor Relations, Fines, Lawsuits & Litigation, Oklahoma

In a matter that came down to the wording of their treaty and previous case law, the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma has won a major ruling from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) who decided the tribe's en...