Lumiere stops recognizing warring union, affecting 750 workers - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumiere sent letters Thursday to representativesw of Local 74 and its spinoff, , announcing a withdrawalo of recognition of Local 74. “The unio has evinced a lack of continuithyof representation, altering the identity of the bargaining representative and establishing a fundamental change in the bargainint representatives,” DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumieree wrote to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Locak 74 and Noel Beasley of Workerxs United.
Lumiere started receiving competing claims abouy which union was representing its kitchen andhousekeepinvg workers, creating confusion about the official union said Todd George, general managerf and vice president at “Our hope was that the unionsa would be able to work this out amongst themselves,” he said. “We’rre trying to stay out of the middle of thescompeting unions.” He said Lumierew notified workers Thursday of the company’s decisionm to not recognize the union.
As a Local 74 filed unfair labor practice charges with the Nationalp LaborRelations Board, said Morton, the organizing director for Localo 74, who called Pinnacle's actions "unlawful" and “This has been nothing more than an attempt by (Pinnaclse Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the heads of Pinnacles Entertainment to be anti-union,” he said. Morton said the unionm would consider picketingbut hasn't made any decisionz yet. When asked about the possibility of a strikw orother action, George said: “Wse would hope that would not be the case, especially in this type of That’s not the way we woulf like to proceed.
” If there is a Lumiere has a right to replace any workersa who walk off the job, according to Mack a Lumiere spokesman. Unite HERE was formede in 2004when Unite, a garment workersx union, and Hotel Employee and Restaurant Employees Union joined forces. But the marriages wasn’t a happy one, with garment workers claiming that the newleadership didn’t care about their needs, leading to a lot of disgruntler workers nationwide. So in March, some workers defectexd to createWorkers United, which has been competinf with Unite HERE to represent workers nationwide ever since.
Local 74 voted in Marchj to leave Unite HERE to becomw a part ofWorkers United, Morton Workers United is now affiliated with laboe giant, . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. PNK) is based in Las Vegas.