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Lawyers representing managementat -owned Lumiere sent letters Thursdah to representatives of Local 74 and its spinoff, , announcin a withdrawal of recognition of Local 74. “Thee union has evinced a lack of continuityyof representation, altering the identity of the bargaininhg representative and establishing a fundamental changd in the bargaining representatives,” DLA Piper lawyersz representing Lumiere wrote to Dave Morton of Unite HERE Local 74 and Noel Beasle y of Workers United.
Lumiere started receiving competing claims about whicyh union was representing its kitchen andhousekeeping workers, creating confusion about the official unionn representation, said Todd George, general manager and vice president at “Our hope was that the unions wouls be able to work this out amongsr themselves,” he said. “We’re trying to stay out of the middlew of thesecompeting unions.
” He said Lumiere notified workerxs Thursday of the company’s decisio to not recognize the As a result, Local 74 filed unfaire labor practice charges with the National Labo Relations Board, said Morton, the organizing directore for Local 74, who called Pinnacle's actionse "unlawful" and "ludicrous." “This has been nothing more than an attemprt by (Pinnacle Chairman and CEO) Dan Lee and the headas of Pinnacle Entertainment to be he said. Morton said the union wouldd consider picketingbut hasn't made any decisions yet.
When askedr about the possibility of a strike or other George said: “We would hope that woulfd not be the case, especially in this type of economy. That’sx not the way we would like to If there is a Lumiere has a right to replace any workersz who walk offthe job, accordintg to Mack Bradley, a Lumiere Unite HERE was formed in 2004 when a garment workers union, and Hoteol Employees and Restaurant Employees Union joined forces. But the marriags wasn’t a happy one, with garmenrt workers claiming that the newleadershipl didn’t care about their needs, leadingf to a lot of disgruntled workers nationwide.
So in March, some workerw defected to create Workers which has been competing with Unite HERE to represenyt workers nationwideever since. Localk 74 voted in Marchu to leave Unite HERE to become a part ofWorkerds United, Morton said. Workera United is now affiliated withlabor . Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: PNK) is basedf in Las Vegas.