Tuesday, April 9, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.
The long and costly Culinary Union strike against the Frontier has just gotten costlier -- for the Strip resort.
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that the Frontier owes several million dollars -- between $5 million and $7 million, the union reckons -- in pension contributions to not only striking employees, but replacement workers as well.
The latest ruling comes from an NLRB memorandum expanding on a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling regarding the hotel's liability in what has become the nation's longest-running labor dispute.
The court ruling, issued Sept. 6, found that the hotel's appeal of an administrative judge's decision in favor of the union was meritless and frivolous. The order said the hotel had to restore funds to the pension.
The hotel, which reportedly has paid back about $1.5 million to the pension fund and disputes the union's estimate of the actual amount owed, still could exercise appeals that would tie up the matter for years.
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