One Vegas case proceeds, another dropped

Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004 | 11:08 a.m.

A National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has ruled in favor of Wal-Mart in one complaint filed on behalf of workers in the Las Vegas Valley, but another complaint is set for a hearing one week from today.

Terry Srsen, vice president of labor relations for Wal-Mart, said the company is pleased with the administrative law judge's decision to dismiss one complaint in its entirety. That complaint alleged that managers unlawfully interrogated and threatened workers at a Las Vegas store.

In next week's hearing on another complaint, an administrative law judge will hear testimony into allegations that former Wal-Mart employee Larry Allen was terminated from the company's store at Eastern and Serene avenues.

The complaint -- the latest in a series filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union -- also alleges managers at both the Marks Street and Eastern and Serene avenues stores in and near Henderson prohibited workers from discussing the union and from distributing union literature, threatening workers with reprisals for their union support and giving workers the impression they were under surveillance.