We are an amalgamated local, which means we have more than one unit, department and/or Casino under one local number. Our current units are: Flamingo Slot Attendants, Flamingo Dealers, LINQ Dealers, Paris/Bally’s Slot Attendants, Cromwell Slot Attendants, Flamingo Cage employees, Flamingo Count Room employees, Flamingo Retail Associates, Paris Dealers, Bally’s Dealers, Harrah’s Dealers, Caesars Palace Dealers, Wynn Dealers, Treasure Island Slot Attendants, Treasure Island Cage Associates and MGM Grand GSR’s. Our first slot attendants formed their union in an election held May 9, 2014 and reached a contract which members ratified overwhelmingly.

The second unit of dealers organized in a NLRB election in November, 2013, where our members voted three to one in favor of joining the UAW.  We’re the first dealers in Las Vegas to organize, and we know many more will follow.

Following our victory, we set to work to elect our representatives and all about collective bargaining.  And it paid off. Slot attendants at Flamingo ratified a five-year contract earlier this year.

And in April, 2015, dealer members ratified our first contract by 91%. Dealers won more than $5,000 in wage improvements over the term of the five-year agreement. Part-time dealers, who have not seen an increase in their base rate other than state and federally mandated minimum wage increases, will be included in the base wage rate hikes. An arbitrary merit system, which oftentimes resulted in biased yearly reviews, has been abolished.

Full-time dealers will receive two additional paid days of bereavement leave for the death of an immediate family member. Part-time dealers will also receive three paid days of bereavement leave. All dealers won an additional paid personal day off for each year of the agreement.

Tips or “tokes” as they are commonly known among dealers, on average represent about 70 percent of a dealer’s pay. Some houses in Las Vegas divert high percentages of tokes to managers who unfairly share in funds that are intended to reward the performance of dealers. The contract has strong language against toke-sharing with management.