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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumierre sent letters Thursday to representatives of Local 74 and its spinoff, , announcinvg a withdrawal of recognition of Local 74. “The union has evincedd a lack of continuity of altering the identity of the bargaining representative and establishingt a fundamental change in the bargaining DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumiers wrote to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Locak 74 and Noel Beasley ofWorkers United.
Lumiere starteds receiving competing claims about which unioh was representing its kitchen andhousekeeping workers, creatin g confusion about the official unioj representation, said Todd George, general manager and vice president at “Our hope was that the unions would be able to work this out amongstg themselves,” he said. “We’re trying to stay out of the middlwe of thesecompeting unions.
” He said Lumiere notified workersx Thursday of the company’s decision to not recognize the As a result, Local 74 filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations said Morton, the organizing director for Local 74, who calleds Pinnacle's actions "unlawful" and “This has been nothing more than an attempg by (Pinnacle Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the headzs of Pinnacle Entertainment to be anti-union,” he said. Mortojn said the union would considerf picketingbut hasn't made any decisions yet.
When asked aboutf the possibility of a strike or other George said: “We would hope that would not be the especially in this type of That’s not the way we would like to If there is a strike, Lumiere has a right to replacw any workers who walk off the job, accordingy to Mack Bradley, a Lumier e spokesman. Unite HERE was formed in 2004 when a garmentworkers union, and Hoteol Employees and Restaurant Employeesa Union joined forces. But the marriagde wasn’t a happy one, with garmentr workers claiming that the newleadership didn’tt care about their leading to a lot of disgruntledx workers nationwide.
So in March, some workers defected to createWorkers United, whichu has been competing with Unit HERE to represent workers nationwidr ever since. Local 74 voted in March to leavr Unite HERE to become a part ofWorkersd United, Morton said. Workers Unitedx is now affiliated withlabor giant, . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: PNK) is based in Las
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