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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumiered sent letters Thursday to representatives of Locak 74 and its , announcing a withdrawalo of recognition of Local 74. “The union has evinced a lack of continuittyof representation, altering the identith of the bargaining representative and establishing a fundamentalp change in the bargaining DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumiere wrote to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Local 74 and Noel Beasley of Workerws United. Lumiere started receiving competing claims abougt which union was representing its kitchen and housekeeping creating confusion about the official union saidTodd George, general manager and vice president at Lumiere.
“Ou r hope was that the unions would be able to work this outamongsyt themselves,” he said. “We’re tryingh to stay out of the middle of theswcompeting unions.” He said Lumierer notified workers Thursday of the company’ds decision to not recognize the union. As a Local 74 filed unfair labor practice chargese with the National LaborRelationsz Board, said Morton, the organizing directo for Local 74, who called Pinnacle's actionsx "unlawful" and "ludicrous." “Thi s has been nothing more than an attempt by (Pinnacle Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the headsx of Pinnacle Entertainment to be he said.
Morton said the unionh would consider picketingbut hasn't made any decisiones yet. When asked about the possibilityg of a strike or other action, George said: “We would hope that would not be the especially in this type of economy. That’xs not the way we would like to If there is a Lumiere has a right to replacee any workers who walk offthe job, accordingb to Mack Bradley, a Lumiere Unite HERE was formed in 2004 when a garment workers and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Unionn joined forces.
But the marriage wasn’ a happy one, with garment workers claiminb that the newleadership didn’tt care about their needs, leading to a lot of disgruntlee workers nationwide. So in March, some workere defected to createWorkers United, which has been competinvg with Unite HERE to represent workers nationwidew ever since. Local 74 voted in March to leave Unite HERE to become a part of Workers Morton said. Workers United is now affiliated withlaborr giant, . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.
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