Today: October 11, 2007 at 6:46:37 PDT
Under the radar, Caesars dealers push for union
Organizers rely mainly on Internet to get message to colleagues,
out of bosses' sight
By Liz Benston
[SIZE=-2]Las Vegas Sun[/SIZE]
For decades, dice and card dealers resisted unions, preferring to watch out for themselves, pocket their own tips and cut their own deals for choice shifts.
But a new culture among dealers is emerging. It surfaced this year at Wynn Las Vegas, where dealers organized in anger over how their tips were being shared with supervisors.
And it's gaining momentum at, of all places, Caesars Palace, a preeminent icon of old Vegas.
Caesars dealers are quietly conducting an organizing drive out of the same concern that agitated dealers down the street: that management might order them to share their tips with first-line supervisors.
The high-profile organizing effort at Wynn led to several complaints to the National Labor Relations Board that management was trying to stifle the effort at the workplace.
The Caesars dealers' organizing effort is being conducted mostly out of sight, on the Internet.
...more - http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/oct/11/566614921.html
Under the radar, Caesars dealers push for union
Organizers rely mainly on Internet to get message to colleagues,
out of bosses' sight
By Liz Benston
[SIZE=-2]Las Vegas Sun[/SIZE]
For decades, dice and card dealers resisted unions, preferring to watch out for themselves, pocket their own tips and cut their own deals for choice shifts.
But a new culture among dealers is emerging. It surfaced this year at Wynn Las Vegas, where dealers organized in anger over how their tips were being shared with supervisors.
And it's gaining momentum at, of all places, Caesars Palace, a preeminent icon of old Vegas.
Caesars dealers are quietly conducting an organizing drive out of the same concern that agitated dealers down the street: that management might order them to share their tips with first-line supervisors.
The high-profile organizing effort at Wynn led to several complaints to the National Labor Relations Board that management was trying to stifle the effort at the workplace.
The Caesars dealers' organizing effort is being conducted mostly out of sight, on the Internet.
...more - http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/oct/11/566614921.html