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UNI's affiliate in the United States UNITE HERE are running a few campaigns demanding respect for union rights and decent collective bargaining in Las Vegas. UNI Gaming Global Union expresses its solidarity with gaming workers in Las Vegas in their on-going negotiations for new collective bargaining agreements on the Las Vegas Strip and Downtown Las Vegas. UNI Gaming has been supporting workers at Station Casinos since 2010 when they made a public demand for a fair process so they can choose freely whether to organize without interference, intimidation, bullying, or litigation by company management. Station Casinos responded to its employees’ organizing campaign with an intense and vicious anti-union campaign. Station Casinos, owned by owned by affiliates of Fertitta Entertainment LLC, Deutsche Bank AG, Oaktree Capital Management, and Fidelity Investment, is now the worst labor-law breaker in the history of the Nevada gaming industry. UNI Gaming also supports that Cosmopolitan workers' demands for a collective contract. After more than two years of negotiations, the company appears uninterested in signing a first collective bargaining agreement for 2,000 workers. The UNITE HERE locals have proposed a contract that would reflect the union standard on the Las Vegas Strip with respect to wages and benefits, job security and workloads, among other things. Unfortunately, there is still no settlement in sight. We believe that Cosmopolitan workers deserve to enjoy the same contract standard as other union workers on the Las Vegas Strip. We call on UNI Gaming affiliates to boycott Station Casinos until the labor dispute is resolved as well as the Cosmopolitan casino resort until a fair contract settlement is reached (see the attached resolutions). We call on the Las Vegas gaming companies to work with the unions toward an expeditious and fair settlement of new collective bargaining agreements. We stand ready to receive continuing contract negotiation updates from our union brothers and sisters in Las Vegas (more information at - www.vegastravelalert.org)