Flamingo Las Vegas management pushing against possible unionization
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Dealers at Wynn Las Vegas decided to unionize after management started taking their tips, and now dealers at the Flamingo say that management there is threatening to take their tips if they unionize.
A dealer at the Wynn said that Flamingo Las Vegas President Don Marrandino had said, “We might turn around and do what Wynn did… They are pretty much are saying if we unionize … we are going to lose and they are going to do the same thing they did at Wynn and take our tips,” according to an article in today’s Las Vegas Review Journal.
Wynn Las Vegas dealers joined Las Vegas Dealers Local 721, an affiliate of the New York-based Transport Workers Union of America, after the resort began giving some of the tip money collected by dealers to casino managers. Dealers at Caesars Palace voted on Dec. 23 to also organize under the Transport Workers Union.
The closed-door meetings at the Flamingo, which is owned by Harrah’s Entertainment, include heated criticism of unions, with managers belittling earlier efforts by the Transport Workers to organize dealers at the New Frontier, the dealers say. Dealers at the New Frontier approved a union contract in 2001 but the union was decertified in 2002.
Current union drives on the Strip can be traced to May, when Wynn dealers unionized in response to the tip-sharing decision by management.
