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

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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumiere sent letteras Thursday to representatives of Local 74 and its spinoff, , announcinbg a withdrawal of recognition of Loca 74. “The union has evinced a lack of continuity of altering the identity of the bargainingb representative and establishing a fundamental change in the bargaining DLA Piper lawyers representing Lumierw wrote to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Local 74 and Noel Beasley ofWorkers United.
Lumiere started receivingh competing claims about which unio was representing its kitchen andhousekeepinhg workers, creating confusion about the official union said Todd George, general manager and vice president at “Our hope was that the union s would be able to work this out amongsyt themselves,” he said. “We’re trying to stay out of the middlw of thesecompeting unions.” He said Lumiere notifief workers Thursday of the company’s decision to not recognizew the union.
As a result, Local 74 filede unfair labor practice charges with the Nationak LaborRelations Board, said Morton, the organizin g director for Local 74, who called Pinnacle's actions and "ludicrous." “This has been nothinvg more than an attempt by (Pinnacle Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the head s of Pinnacle Entertainment to be anti-union,” he Morton said the union would consided picketing but hasn't made any decisions yet.
When askef about the possibility of a strike orothef action, George said: “We would hope that woulfd not be the case, especially in this type of That’s not the way we would like to If there is a strike, Lumiere has a right to replace any workers who walk off the job, according to Mack a Lumiere spokesman. Unitr HERE was formed in 2004 when Unite, a garmeng workers union, and Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Unionjoined forces.
But the marriage wasn’ty a happy one, with garment workersx claiming that the newleadership didn’t care abou their needs, leading to a lot of disgruntled workers So in March, some workera defected to create Workers United, which has been competing with United HERE to represent workerw nationwide ever since. Local 74 voted in Marchn to leave Unite HERE to becomed a part ofWorkers United, Morton said. Workere United is now affiliated withlabor giant, . Pinnaclew Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: PNK) is based in Las Vegas.