FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Monday, September 29, 2025
MEDIA CONTACT:
Bethany Khan: bkhan@culinaryunion226.org ▪ (702) 387-7088
STATEMENT by Culinary Union President Diana Valles regarding Red Rock Casino/NLRB case at D.C. Circuit:
Culinary Union is closely watching as the federal government continues making its case against Red Rock Casino at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and against Station Casinos and several of its properties in the ongoing trial before an administrative law judge of the National Labor Relations Board for their blatant anti-union and anti-worker behavior as part of one of the government’s largest labor law enforcement actions in American history.
Workers are standing up to the company and testifying in the current trial about how the company was union-busting and undermining their right to organize. Culinary Union will continue to support workers until they receive justice.
We are confident that the D.C. Circuit will uphold the NLRB’s ruling that Red Rock Casino committed egregious violations of the law and that the NLRB will find in the current trial that Station Casinos did so again on an even larger scale.
It is outrageous that a major gaming company continues to operate with impunity in Nevada’s gaming industry, while the Gaming Control Board remains silent on one of its licensees.
The federal government is doing what state regulators refuse to: Holding Station Casinos accountable for its union-busting and illegal actions.
The Culinary Union is committed to advocating for workers’ rights at every level, whether before the NLRB, in a courtroom, in a casino employee dining room, on the public sidewalk, or anywhere the rights of working people are under attack.
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ABOUT CULINARY UNION:
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165, Nevada affiliates of UNITE HERE, represent 60,000 workers in Las Vegas and Reno, including at most of the casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip and in Downtown Las Vegas. UNITE HERE represents 300,000 workers in gaming, hotel, and food service industries in North America.
The Culinary Union, through the Culinary Health Fund, is one of the largest healthcare consumers in the state. The Culinary Health Fund is sponsored by the Culinary Union and Las Vegas-area employers. It provides health insurance coverage for over 145,000 Nevadans, the Culinary Union’s members, and their dependents.
The Culinary Union is Nevada’s largest Latinx/Black/AAPI/immigrant organization with members who come from 178 countries and speak over 40 different languages. We are proud to have helped over 18,000 immigrants become American citizens and new voters since 2001 through our affiliate, The Citizenship Project.
The Culinary Union has a diverse membership which is 55% women and 60% immigrants. The demographics of Culinary Union members are approximately: 54% Latino/a, 18% white, 15% Asian, 12% Black, and less than 1% Indigenous Peoples.
Culinary Union members work as: Guest room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, laundry, and kitchen workers. The Culinary Union has been fighting and winning for working families in Nevada for 90 years.
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