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Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 | 1:46 p.m.
A massive protest slated Saturday in downtown Las Vegas stems, in part, from demands by the Culinary Union for a 15-cent increase to workers' health and pension funds. The Sun obtained a letter in which one downtown casino urges its employees to question Local 226 about the tactic of staging a major protest because it could hurt their own pocketbooks by scaring tip-paying customers away. “Maybe you should ask the Union to compensate the tipped employees for their losses,” the letter says. The casino says an increase in pension and health contributions is “a lot of money to properties such ...
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Who are they kidding? Since when did any casino have concerns about tips their employees make?
Leave it to The Culinary Union to try and ruin business and scare tourist's away
"Maybe you should ask the Union to compensate the tipped employees for their losses," the letter says....
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Ths is an asinine statement by the casino. No question. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
That's the whole point - disrupt business, embarrass the owners in front of as many tourists as they can. That's pressure. That's why they do it. And the owner's have relied on the "tips" argument for too long. Just because your employees are earning tips doesn't mean you can avoid paying them what they are worth.
Just wondering if bobthebuilder is a non-union construction worker. As far as casinos go, the only reason they give their non-union employees raises is to maintain the same scale of salary as what is negotiated for union members by their unions. I always feel pity for the union haters who have no idea how much the unions have contributed to the great standards of living received by casino employees as a result of tough union negotiators. Maybe they are jealous that they are missing out. Oh wait. This is a right to work state so even if you aren't a union member you still get the same benefits and wages that were only obtained by negotiators from the union. As for the protest, will it have any lasting negativity for downtown Las Vegas? Absolutely not. It will only hurt the purse strings of those casinos for that day and will soon be forgotten. Meanwhile, since the majority of downtown tourism is of people who are staying downtown, they will most likely just go about their business and even this day won't make their greasy palms come up short.
Out of control unions like Culinary do nothing but hurt businesses AND their employees.
casinos are losing money they cannot afford any added cost
What happens when they completely lose their healthcare and they get shifted to Obamacare? Protest their own votes? They have no idea what pawns they are.
No one will dispute that unions played an important role in the development of America and Las Vegas. However civil law now protects the integrity of the worker. This stunt is not going to help anyone, except of course the union organizers whose focus is on drama and adversity and not the actual health and welfare of the worker.