From a new web site by the UFC: The Truth About Culinary 226 website provides information on Culinary Workers Union Local 226 (“Culinary Union”), an affiliate of UNITE HERE, ongoing campaign of harassment against the Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) and its partners, under the guise of concern about the conduct of some UFC fighters. However, the Culinary Union’s actual agenda has nothing to do with such conduct. This website’s purpose is to set the record straight regarding the true motivations of the Culinary Union’s smear campaign. Why is the Culinary Union attacking the UFC? The Culinary Union represents workers in the hotel, food service and gaming industries. For more than a decade, the Culinary Union has attempted to unionize the employees of Station Casinos, a gaming and entertainment company in Las Vegas, Nevada that is majority-owned by Frank Fertitta III and Lorenzo Fertitta, who are also majority owners of the UFC.
Founded over three decades ago, Station Casinos prides itself on its treatment of its 12,000 employees. Station Casinos was named one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” four years in a row – an honor no other gaming company has ever received.
The Culinary Union has targeted Station Casinos because the company refuses to agree to a “card check” process whereby the Culinary Union may become the representative of its employees without being elected as such through a secret ballot election. Rather than simply following the secret ballot election process that U.S. federal law provides, the Culinary Union’s management has instead waged a dishonest campaign to pressure Station Casinos to capitulate to its demands. As part of that campaign, the Culinary Union has been engaging in harassment tactics that target all of the business interests of the Fertittas, including Station Casinos and the UFC.
http://www.thetruthaboutculinary226.com/
You just gotta love the UFC for taking on a bunch of ignorant thugs.
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