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Trump Las Vegas Hotel faces federal complaint for violating workers' union rights
By Laura Clawson
Thursday Mar 10, 2016 · 12:49 PM CST
Trump Las Vegas workers take their fight for a fair contract on the road.
The Trump International Hotel Las Vegas recently lost its claim [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/24/1490373/-Trump-Las-Vegas-hotel-is-not-letting-up-on-its-fight-against-its-own-workers ] that workers were intimidated by the Culinary Workers Union into voting to join the union. Now the hotel faces a National Labor Relations Board complaint [ http://vegasinc.com/business/2016/mar/09/trump-international-faces-april-hearing-over-labor/ ] for just the kind of thing it claimed (falsely) that the union was doing: Telling workers they’d get favorable treatment if they rejected the union and firing or holding back union supporters.
Specifically, the complaint alleges that a hotel labor consultant told employees last year that the Culinary would not help them and said “it would be futile for them to select the union as their bargaining representative.” The consultant also guaranteed “job opportunities to transfer to different positions” if workers stopped supporting the union, according to the complaint.
The complaint says those alleged actions mean the hotel “has been interfering with, restraining and coercing” workers exercising rights guaranteed by law.
Furthermore, the labor board’s complaint says the hotel terminated a certain employee and did not transfer another one to a full-time server job because they “formed, joined and assisted the union and engaged in concerted activities.”
This isn't the first such complaint:
The complaint issued this week is the third one brought by federal government against Trump Las Vegas alleging unfair labor practices. In prior complaints, federal officials have alleged that Trump’s hotel company engaged in the following unlawful activities: 1) maintaining rules prohibiting workers from communicating with one another and the public; 2) interrogations and surveillance; 3) intimidation of employees by Trump management and security staff, including a manager physically pushing employees; and 4) suspensions and a threat to fire union supporters.
How surprising. A Donald Trump-branded and co-owned business is resorting to bullying and retaliation to get what it wants, and what it wants is a frightened, underpaid workforce.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/10/1499229/-Trump-Las-Vegas-Hotel-faces-federal-complaint-for-violating-workers-union-rights
By Laura Clawson
Thursday Mar 10, 2016 · 12:49 PM CST
Trump Las Vegas workers take their fight for a fair contract on the road.
The Trump International Hotel Las Vegas recently lost its claim [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/02/24/1490373/-Trump-Las-Vegas-hotel-is-not-letting-up-on-its-fight-against-its-own-workers ] that workers were intimidated by the Culinary Workers Union into voting to join the union. Now the hotel faces a National Labor Relations Board complaint [ http://vegasinc.com/business/2016/mar/09/trump-international-faces-april-hearing-over-labor/ ] for just the kind of thing it claimed (falsely) that the union was doing: Telling workers they’d get favorable treatment if they rejected the union and firing or holding back union supporters.
Specifically, the complaint alleges that a hotel labor consultant told employees last year that the Culinary would not help them and said “it would be futile for them to select the union as their bargaining representative.” The consultant also guaranteed “job opportunities to transfer to different positions” if workers stopped supporting the union, according to the complaint.
The complaint says those alleged actions mean the hotel “has been interfering with, restraining and coercing” workers exercising rights guaranteed by law.
Furthermore, the labor board’s complaint says the hotel terminated a certain employee and did not transfer another one to a full-time server job because they “formed, joined and assisted the union and engaged in concerted activities.”
This isn't the first such complaint:
The complaint issued this week is the third one brought by federal government against Trump Las Vegas alleging unfair labor practices. In prior complaints, federal officials have alleged that Trump’s hotel company engaged in the following unlawful activities: 1) maintaining rules prohibiting workers from communicating with one another and the public; 2) interrogations and surveillance; 3) intimidation of employees by Trump management and security staff, including a manager physically pushing employees; and 4) suspensions and a threat to fire union supporters.
How surprising. A Donald Trump-branded and co-owned business is resorting to bullying and retaliation to get what it wants, and what it wants is a frightened, underpaid workforce.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/10/1499229/-Trump-Las-Vegas-Hotel-faces-federal-complaint-for-violating-workers-union-rights
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