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First
vote set in dealers' organizing effort
LAS
VEGAS SUN
November 30, 2000
The National Labor Relations Board has set Jan. 22
as the date when dealers at the Las Vegas Strip's
Tropicana hotel-casino will vote on whether they want to
be represented by the Transport Workers Union.
The vote will be the first in a series of votes
planned by the union at various hotel-casinos along the
Strip. Currently, unions do not represent any dealers in
Nevada.
About 180 Tropicana dealers will allowed to cast
secret ballots in the Jan. 22 vote, to be held at the
property. The election will be supervised by the NLRB.
Although dealers have never been organized before
in Las Vegas, TWU organizer Jeff Osborne said he's
optimistic the union will prevail at the Tropicana, saying
that more than 70 percent of dealers at the property
signed petitions calling for representation.
NLRB hearings were held Wednesday on the TWU
petition to represent dealers at the Monte Carlo, and the
NLRB is expected to set an election date there within a
week, Osborne said. Upcoming hearings are scheduled for
dealers at the Las Vegas Hilton, the Luxor, the Riviera
and the Stratosphere.
Osborne said the union is planning to file
petitions to represent dealers at Bally's Las Vegas, the
MGM Grand and the New York-New York in the near future.
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