UAW plans Atlantic City rally to support contract talks with 4 casinos

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Source: Press of Atlantic City

Dealers from at least four casinos will take to the streets next month for a demonstration calling for fair contract negotiations, the United Auto Workers union announced Tuesday.
The rally, scheduled for 12:30 p.m. June 21, is expected to include Ron Gettelfinger, president of the Detroit-based UAW, and John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union coalition. Thousands of union members throughout New Jersey, as well as Detroit, New York, Connecticut and Washington, D.C., are being asked to march in support.

“The dealers are fed up,” said Kevin Donovan, assistant director for the UAW region that oversees Atlantic City. “They’re not asking for the world. They’re just asking for the piece of the world that they’ve earned.”

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Charles Wowkanech, president of the New Jersey AFL-CIO, also spoke on behalf of the workers, promising further political and legislative muscle should the casinos fail to negotiate fairly or stall the bargaining process.

Here’s how contract negotiations are playing out between the UAW and the casinos where dealers voted to unionize:
- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in April certified the results of the Bally’s election last year, when dealers voted 628-255 for representation. But according to the UAW, Bally’s is appealing the decision and the NLRB is pursuing an unfair labor practice complaint against Bally’s because it has refused to bargain.

- Caesar’s and Tropicana are in the bargaining process.

- Trump has asked the NLRB to overturn the results of the March 2007 election to organize dealers there. The complaint is still under review.

On Edit--Full story : http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/163907.html

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1. Trump can shove it up his ass sideways. If the vote was fair and straight, let it ride. nt

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2. Here's the Basis of their objection ...

Source: ibtimes http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070409/casinos-unionization.htm

Trump Challenges Dealers Union Vote

...Trump Plaza's challenge centers on a March 25 rally in which the union, U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews, D-N.J., and other politicians counted union pledge cards signed by dealers.


Trump Plaza claims the union wrongly represented to voters that the labor board supported the union in the election, and that the rally gave the false impression that the union was already the certified representative of dealers before the election.


Those actions "destroyed the laboratory conditions necessary for a free and fair election," Trump Plaza asserted in papers filed with the board.

Not mentioned in the story was that the National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund YAHOOS also filed objections similar to those filed by Trump. An Administrative Law Judge ruled against these objections in June, and is now in the hands of the National Board in D.C., where it sits on a desk, gathering dust.