{"id":249220,"date":"2022-12-22T09:41:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=249220"},"modified":"2022-12-22T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T17:19:42","slug":"culinary-union-attacks-fertitta-bros-political-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/culinary-union-attacks-fertitta-bros-political-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary Union Attacks Fertitta Brothers’ Political Donations for Containing False Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Culinary Union is continuing to go after Frank III and Lorenzo Fertitta, the Las Vegas casino tycoons who control Station Casinos and the billionaires’ publicly traded arm, Red Rock Resorts (RRR).<\/p>\n

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Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III. The Fertitta brothers donated heavily to Republican candidates during the 2022 midterm elections. The Culinary Union believes some of their contributions were facilitated in error. (Image: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Culinary, an affiliate of Unite Here, represents about 60K workers in Las Vegas and Reno who are employed in the Nevada gaming industry. The trade group has unionized most casinos in Las Vegas. But Station and Red Rock properties remain unorganized.<\/p>\n

The Station-RRR empire includes Red Rock Resort, Green Valley Ranch, Palace Station, Sunset Station, Boulder Station, Santa Fe Station, Barley’s, The Greens, Wild Wild West, and Wildfire Gaming. Station is additionally developing another locals-focused casino southwest of the Strip called Durango.<\/p>\n

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Culinary and Station-RRR have long been at odds over the efforts to unionize the company’s casinos. Culinary has repeatedly raised grievances that the Fertitta casinos have routinely interfered with labor organizing efforts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In March, the union filed a mass action lawsuit<\/a> against Station Casinos for alleged violations of Nevada’s “Right to Return” law. Culinary has also recently scolded RRR for maintaining an all-male, all-white board of directors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Fertitta brothers are distant cousins of fellow casino billionaire Tilman Fertitta, who owns five Golden Nugget casinos in three states.<\/p>\n

Culinary Targets Fertitta Donations<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Fertittas are two of the GOP’s most resilient supporters<\/a>. During the 2022 midterms, Frank and Lorenzo, plus their two wives, collectively poured more than $1.5 million into GOP political action committees.<\/p>\n

But Culinary officials have taken issue with some of the 2022 Fertitta money. In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Culinary went after the Fertitta brothers’ recent political donations to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

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THREAD: #FalseFertittaInformation<\/a> on 25 @FEC<\/a> receipts: #StationCasinos<\/a> controlling owners made $756,300 in federally tracked political contributions where the receipt contains outdated, false information. $RRR<\/a> 1\/7 pic.twitter.com\/0uqP4Xnoz7<\/a><\/p>\n

— Culinary Union (@Culinary226) December 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n