Station laid off, fired, rehired and recalled employees, terminated their recall rights and benefits and implemented new health and safety standards “all without bargaining” with the unions, according to the release.

The release said Station Casinos didn’t bargain with employee unions prior to making sweeping job changes during and after the casino shut down last spring. Overstreet’s complaint states Station Casinos “provided more than ministerial assistance” to employees by circulating the petitions at Boulder Station from mid-June to early August, and at Palace Station from August to mid-September. Those withdrawals, the labor board said this week, were “unlawful” and “based on anti-union petitions that Station Casinos unlawfully encouraged employees to circulate and sign.” A number of employees at Boulder Station and Palace Station in August and September signed petitions asking to leave their union representation. Employees at some Station properties voted for union representation in recent years, but Station and the Culinary haven’t signed a contract at any of those properties. The complaint marks another development in a long-running dispute between Station Casinos and the Culinary union. The complaint alleges the companies “engaged in a scheme to use layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic to undermine unions representing or seeking to represent their employees,” a release said. NLRB Regional Director Cornele Overstreet, whose area includes Las Vegas, issued a 92-page complaint against Red Rock Resorts Inc., Station Holdco LLC, Station Casinos LLC and 10 of their Las Vegas casinos. On Thursday, the Las Vegas-based company released a statement rejecting the allegations as “biased and unfair.” The Culinary union called the complaint “massive and unprecedented,” and referred to Station Casinos’ alleged actions as a “shameful scheme.”

(Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) National Labor Relations Board this week accused Station Casinos of unlawfully using the pandemic to undermine unions and influence employees to push for decertification. Palace Station photographed on Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Las Vegas.

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