(NLRB) Labor board takes side of Mardi Gras union organizers
Source: Miami Herald
The National Labor Relations Board has accused Mardi Gras Casino management of illegal union-busting tactics and is demanding the reinstatement of 10 fired workers.
By Michael Vasquez
mrvasquez@MiamiHerald.com
The National Labor Relations Board has stepped in on behalf of 10 workers fired from their jobs at Hallandale Beach’s Mardi Gras Casino, with the federal board accusing casino management of “unfair labor practices” that interfered with the workers’ federally protected right to form a union.
All 10 fired workers served on the casino’s union leadership committee and all 10 lost their jobs last November. The workers then took their case to the labor board, charging that Mardi Gras management responded to an employee union drive with open hostility — threatening employees with unspecified reprisals, promising a pay increase if the union push was abandoned and interrogating workers with suspected union sympathies.
In a formal legal complaint filed earlier this week, the labor board — a federal agency focused on worker rights — sided with the fired employees and accused Mardi Gras of illegal union-busting tactics. The board is demanding the fired workers be reinstated and be paid back wages, and that the casino implement new policies more tolerant of union organizing efforts.
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