At least one Red Rock Casino Resort & Spa worker in Las Vegas says her voice was indeed heard during a 2019 unionization effort. And efforts by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to overturn the result are unjust.
Raynell Teske, a Red Rock Casino employee, has partnered with the National Right to Work (NRTW), a nonprofit that provides free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been potentially violated by unions. Together, Teske filed an amicus brief last week in the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Crafted with the help of NRTW attorneys, Teske argues that she and her colleagues held a fair union vote in December of 2019 that resulted in Red Rock Casino rejecting the Culinary Union. The secret ballot election tallied 627-534 against joining the powerful casino union.
“Ms. Teske and her coworkers voted decisively against unionization, but an Obama-appointed judge imposed it on them anyway,” NRTW President Mark Mix said in a statement.
Following the union vote rejection, Cornele Overstreet, regional director of the NLRB office that tends to labor complaints filed in Las Vegas, intervened. Overstreet filed a federal injunction in the US District Court of Nevada asking a judge to override the employee vote.
Overstreet said numerous complaints filed with her office from Red Rock Casino workers contended that Station Casinos — owner of the glitzy casino resort located in affluent Summerlin — greatly increased...
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