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International Union of Gaming
Employees
P.O. Box 71961
Las Vegas, Nevada 89170
(702) 474-9766 · Fax (702) 386-4821
November 3, 2006
Steve Wynn, Chairman of the Board
Wynn Hotel
3131 Las Vegas Blvd, South
Las Vegas, NV 89101
Dear Mr. Wynn:
We have been asked by a
substantial number of Wynn employees to assist them in
countering the radical changes imposed on them by you
regarding toke policy.
Our first thoughts were to
allow time for the more clever heads within your
management team to fully weigh the consequences of
diluting the protection so necessary to properly run your
table games. By creating a conflict within the floor
people as they administer judgments between the house and
its players, who is there to protect your interests? It
is now apparent that the mirage of cost savings in floor
person payroll clouded your normally impeccable judgment
and you stuck to your guns. We now see that this problem
will not rectify itself and some outside forces must be
brought into play.
We weren’t so much upset or
angry. We were just astounded. We feel closeness to this
industry in which we worked for so many decades and feel
deeply that if this policy takes hold it will eventually
damage this industry beyond repair. The mechanisms within
the state, i.e. the gaming commission, labor, attorney
general, etc, are not equipped to deal with this kind of
problem and they are predisposed to pass the buck to
others.
So, where does that leave
us? We have been asked to help the dealers, and possibly
other tip earners overturn this mistake. We intend to try
with all our ability to do just that. Some of the
employees have passed on rumors to us that this toke
policy may not be written in stone. Nothing would give us
greater pleasure than to be informed by your dealers that
you have officially rescinded your decision so that we can
close the file on this matter. But to be honest, we will
not allow rumors to dissuade us from planning and carrying
out our future actions.
As a side note, in July of
1999 we had an almost identical situation with Brian
McMullan, President & CEO of Resort at Summerlin. On July
19, 1999 we sent him a letter outlining our objections. A
copy of this letter is enclosed herewith. Within days the
policy was abandoned and dealer’s tokes were no longer
used to subsidize floor person’s salaries.
It is our opinion that this
policy is bad for dealers, bad for all tip earners, bad
for the Wynn organization, and most certainly bad for the
entire gaming industry. If you feel it would be useful for
us to talk, please let us know.
Respectfully,
Tony Badillo, President
Jack Lipsman, Vice
President
International Union of
Gaming Employees
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