Dealers vote to decertify

Tuesday, April 9, 2002 | 11:10 a.m.

Dealers at the Stratosphere hotel-casino voted narrowly Saturday to decertify the Transport Workers Union in a National Labor Relations Board-supervised vote.

One hundred twelve dealers voted in favor of decertification, while 105 voted against, said Mike Chavez, agent in charge of the NLRB's Las Vegas office. One year ago, the Stratosphere dealers voted 116-48 in favor of the union.

Unless an objection to the vote is filed within seven days, the NLRB will decertify the union as the collective bargaining representative of the Stratosphere's dealers, Chavez said.

TWU officials could not be reached for comment.

The vote came less than a month after dealers at the New Frontier voted to approve a TWU-negotiated contract, making that property the first in Las Vegas history to have unionized dealers.

Dealers voted in favor of the TWU at a third Strip property, the Tropicana, early last year. Chavez said he was unaware that any decertification petition had been filed at that property.

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