Union dispute at Hacienda, Sahara to be reconsidered

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Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002 | 11:19 a.m.

A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the National Labor Relations Board must take another look at its decision that favored the Hacienda and Sahara hotel-casinos in Las Vegas in a fight with the Culinary and Bartenders unions.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the NLRB did not give adequate reasons when it cleared the two hotels of allegations of unfair labor practices when they discontinued deducting union dues from the paychecks of its employees.

The hotels, under former owners, had contracts with the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165, for 30 years in which they agreed to deduct union dues from their employees' paychecks.

The contracts expired in May 1994, but the hotels continued to abide by the dues-checkoff agreement for more than a year.

The joint executive board of the two unions then filed an unfair labor practices charge against the Hacienda, which has since been demolished, and the Sahara.