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Union settles complaints with two casinos

Tuesday, May 15, 2001 | 10:31 a.m.

The Transport Workers Union has settled National Labor Relations Board complaints it made against the MGM Grand and Caesars Palace in the wake of the union's campaign to organize Strip dealers earlier this year.

The sole provision of the settlement is that the MGM Grand and Caesars Palace post employee notices for the next 60 days outlining employees' rights under federal labor law. The notices, for example, inform employees that their jobs can't be threatened if they support the union, that employees won't be under surveillance to discover if they're backing the union, and that the company can't tell employees it would be futile to join the union.

Neither property admitted wrongdoing in signing the settlements.

Dealers at the MGM Grand voted by a margin of nearly 3-to-1 against the union in January, while no vote has been taken to date at Caesars Palace. The TWU is currently in negotiations with the Tropicana, Stratosphere and New Frontier for a contract after the union prevailed in elections at those properties.

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