Ruben Garcia In The News

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The Trump administration issued rules and legal guidance that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers, and for workers to bring complaints and lawsuits against employers for alleged labor-law violations.
C.B.S. News
Workers are gaining ground in efforts to unionize. Employees at Chipotle and Trader Joe's voted to unionize for the first time in recent weeks.
The Nevada Independent
Red Rock Resorts is the only publicly traded casino operator headquartered in Nevada without a female or minority board member, leading Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to question the five-person board’s make-up to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Nevada Current
Station Casinos, the owner of nine casinos and one of the largest employers in the state, has resorted to an assortment of tactics to avoid collective bargaining with the Culinary Union, the largest union in the state. Now, the Culinary wants Nevada gaming regulators to use the biggest hammer of all – the threat of license revocation – to gain the casino company’s compliance with federal labor law.
Des Moines Register
Ruben Garcia, the co-director of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Workplace Law Program, spoke about McKeown's explanation for how to leave a union.
Las Vegas Sun
The 5,000 state employees and 1,400 university employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 could have to pay an additional $55 a month in their insurance plans as well as an additional $175 for unvaccinated dependents over the age of 18 to help recoup testing and hospitalization costs.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Station Casinos will have to bargain in good faith with unions for employees at Red Rock Resort after a federal appeals court panel declined to overturn a lower court’s ruling.
U.S.A. Today
In high-profile legal cases, it's sometimes not just about who wins and loses.