The Culinary Workers Union has been battling Station Casinos for years. Known as a kingmaker in Nevada politics, the powerful local union represents casino and hotel workers throughout the Vegas Strip and downtown. Station Casinos, owned by the wealthy brothers Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, has been one of a few notable non-union holdouts.
The union’s secretary-treasurer, Ted Pappageorge, said in a statement that the decision “affirms what we have been saying for years.”
“Station Casinos needs to stop breaking the law and treat its workers with respect,” Pappageorge said. “This company is an outlier in the Nevada gaming industry and it will be held accountable by the federal government.”