But we had a vote and tried to help. The people voted, and they'll have to live with their choices. The Transport Workers Union, which has 110,000 members nationally, including about 3,000 airline workers at McCarran International Airport, moves on to its third hotel vote today with the Tropicana dealers. Union elections are also scheduled for next Saturday at the MGM Grand and Stratosphere. Trotti said no union had approached the dealers about organizing in the past, and he wasn't counting it as a loss for the union.
People say the TWU lost.
No, the dealers lost. The thing I can't understand around here is the dealers make less than everyone around them, less than the cocktail waitresses, less than the bartenders. Tim Grandfield, director of organizing for the Transport Workers, said the Hilton election was fair and up front, unlike the Monte Carlo vote. The NLRB agreed to cancel Saturday's election at the Luxor and will investigate the charges. Grandfield noted these were the first elections for hotel dealers, and, if nothing else, management will at least look at dealers differently.