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Letter
# 28, 29
Unique
work force at Harvey's-Iowa
(#28, NFGE, # 29)
Subj.: Harvey's
casino
Date: 09/27/2000 4:44:06 PM Pacific
Daylight Time
From: #28-Iowa
To: dealers@nfge.com
Hello, I am a dealer at Harvey's Council Bluffs,
Iowa and we just found out
today that an employee working slots at the casino
accidentally dropped a $25 dollar chip in their toke box.
Her supervisor wouldn't let her get into the box to
retrieve it.
Once it was dropped it was a done deal and they
made her take a $25 variance that day since the $25 was
part of her bank. I wondered, is this the same company
that takes it upon themselves to go looking in our toke
box at the request of a guest, open our toke box and give
him back the toke that he left for the dealers.
My, My .....they think having a so called pizza
party for the dealers these days is going to smooth things
over...Wrong! We want our money and the stealing from the
toke box (in more ways than one) has got to S T O P. As we
said, they might be able to legally steal from the public
but they will get a fight when they steal from the dealers
in Iowa....
***OUR RESPONSE TO #28***
Subj:
Re: Harvey's casino
Date: 09/27/2000 9:21:09 PM Pacific Daylight
Time
From: Bronxguy37
To: # 28- Iowa .
CC: ncda@fiax.net
To Harvey's dealer:
You can do three things, in the order given. But you must
get the dealers themselves to agree, and then stick to your guns.
1. Write a letter to management from a
"dealer's committee" demanding the return of your money.
No individual dealer needs to sign it but you can say that it
represents the view of a majority of the dealers. Give them three
days to respond.
2. If you get a negative response, or no response,
draft a letter to your state's gaming authority. Explain
that management stole your toke money from the dealer's toke box
and when you made a demand for its return, they refused.
Tell them that you are filing a complaint with the local police in
three days unless they intervene. Send it certified mail,
but first call and get the name of the person to address the
letter to.
3. If you get no help from Gaming, then file the
complaint with the police and then call your local newspaper and
give them a "press release" about the police complaint.
Once you show them a copy of the complaint, they know it is
legitimate news and will print the story.
If all this doesn't convince the management of your casino
that they should not steal your money, then go to the courthouse
and file a small claim action against them. I believe that you
will succeed. And, of course, if you do succeed, issue
another press release to tell of the result. In any case,
let me know how you make out.
And remember the words: GO UNION!
Regards,
Jack Lipsman, VP
NFGE
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Their second letter.....
Subj: Harvey's Dealers
Date: 09/28/2000 7:06:19 AM Pacific Daylight
Time
From: # 29-iowa
To: Bronxguy37
Mr. Lipsman,
We are very concerned about Harvey's stealing money from
our toke box. We feel they are doing it on a daily basis. They
have dealers changing table layouts, handing out pay checks for up
to four hours, handing out birthday cups to our guest, shredding
cards, doing tga, and using three dealers to clean and vacuum for
up to four hours. And although they are not dropping tokes,
Harvey's pays them the toke rate for that day.
We feel that they are stealing from us to compensate these
dealers wages, even though they are not dealing and doing
maintenance and other tasks for the casino.. And by the way, none
of this is in our job description that they brought from Lake
Tahoe with them. I have accused them of this and we don't see as
much of it now, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening.
We can't keep
track of where every dealer is that is on the schedule. I have
been there 5 years, and I told them I didn't want to be making
beds 5 years from now. And with the pattern they were setting I
was afraid that I would be. I know we need a contract and we are
working towards that now.
I just wanted
you to know that it is much worse than is being told. I want to
thank you for your swift response to my email and will pass this
on to the other dealers.
Sincerely,
Unhappy Dealer at Harvey's
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