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Steve Wynn's Union Busting Meeting |
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This is copied from "Link of the Week." Gary Loveman was expected to speak in the week leading up to the Caesars Palace Dealers' election. He instead chose to not speak to Dealers at Harrah's flagship property about the most important decision of their dealing career. This week's link concerns the last time a Nevada Casino CEO tried to convince his workers that TWU could not help them as much as he could. Dealers did not buy it. Steve Wynn held a last-minute meeting with Wynn Dealers to try to convince them to vote against their best interest. He failed. Although the audio quality is not exactly fit for movie theaters, it is the content that is important. You will be subjected to more Union-busting meetings as our efforts progress. Near the end of the recording, he talks about being the dealers' representative! Does that sound familiar? Listed below are excerpts from his anti-Union speech. Look through the rest of the page linked to find out more about the Union busting business. See an actual home of a Union buster. We are being subjected to the exact same tactics that have been used in thousands of anti-Union campaigns since the NLRA became Federal Law. Click here to view the full transcript, plus this contains another link where you may find the audio. Again, you will find a few excerpts below. Wynn Dealers prevailed, 444-149. ...My job today is to re-instill trust in me from you by admitting that I made a mistake. I am not permitted by law to make promises and that’s as it should be. But I am entitled to say that I’ve got a 40 year history of taking care of people that I work with. Not because I’m a particularly good guy, but because I know how important it is to do that when I see things clearly. I get the picture here. I understand the situation. And I need to restore the feeling here. And in order to do that, I need to stay as your representative here. I need to still be your guy. The union has no experience in our business. They are no special solution to any of our problems. My sensitivity is – whether it comes to me early or late – the ability of us to have a better life is dependant upon us acting like a family and trusting one another. Even if we make mistakes or we’re not perfect... So understand that I’m not angry at anybody and the most rabid anti-Steve guy in the room or gal has nothing to fear from me. You’re not going to get fired – no matter what. Let’s get that straight. I’m standing here on the record saying, I’m not in the back hallways. I’m not being frantic or hysterical. All I’m doing here is standing here, apologizing for the mistake. I’m saying that the thing I wanna do is keep my job as your representative. I don’t want to get fired and have someone between us. It is a vastly more complicated thing to do. If the union gets a ‘yes’ vote from you, I’m required by law to sit down and bargain and a whole new set of things start in. This is a public company and I have to represent the long term interests of the company. These things are usually negotiated – they attempt to negotiate for a period of time. You lose all your flexibility and you have to think very differently for each and every thing. We have to revisit everything about our relationship... I like the relationship that we have now, even though some of you are not satisfied with it. And I want the chance, I want the chance, to do what I can – based upon the understandings that we have – to put the smile back on your face. If I can’t do that, you’ve always got the other option to fire me. But I need for us to be together to take us where we want to go in this building. I’m your guy. I gotta be your guy in order for us to really get great. And I wanna stay that way.
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