'After all these years of fighting to make our jobs better, it is time for management to listen to us: We want to have fair wages and good health benefits like tens of thousands of other casino workers in Las Vegas.'Īt the large casino-hotels owned and operated by Station Casinos in Las Vegas, including the soon-to-be-acquired Palms Casino Resort, workers have been publicly demanding a fair process to exercise their right to choose whether to form a union. 'It is very simple: We voted for the union because we want to have a union at Boulder Station,' said Rodrigo Solano, a cook at the casino, which opened in 1994. Boulder Station is the first of Station Casinos’ properties in Nevada to vote yes for unionization. More than 570 Boulder Station workers will now enjoy and exercise their right to come together and make things better at their workplace with the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and the Bartenders Union Local 165. If you were lamenting that Labor Day’s current day association with leisure has obfuscated the true meaning of the holiday-don’t despair because the working people of Boulder Station Hotel & Casino got together over the Labor Day weekend and after a long battle said, 'Union Yes!'
