has been acquisitive in Washington<\/a>, scooping up its 19 card rooms there over the past year and the company could add to that roster in the coming months, which would likely bolster the ranks of union members among its employees.<\/p>\n\u201cAs we pick up more properties, we’d expect more union membership,\u201d said Persson.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that the aforementioned vote by Maverick workers to unionize took just two days, one of the quickest votes on record in Washington history.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaverick Gaming operates card rooms in Washington located from Kirkland to Tukwila to Lakewood to Kennewick, and in total operates 26 casinos across three states,\u201d according to the company. \u201cMaverick Gaming currently employees approximately 2,200 people in Washington State and intends to invest $500 million in licensed card rooms and planned entertainment developments across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maverick Gaming LLC employees in Washington recently voted in overwhelming fashion to organize, becoming the first casino workers in the state to unionize. The company owns 19 of the 44 card rooms in the Evergreen State and the vote to join Teamsters 117 pertains to as many as 1,900 of Maverick’s 2,200 workers there. Maverick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":128603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,33810],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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