Durango will be the only major casino to serve the 250,000 adults who live within a 5-mile radius. The 201-room casino and resort has been under construction for almost 20 months on a 50-acre site near the 215 Beltway and South Durango Drive.

When it opens, Durango will become the first all-new locals casino in Southern Nevada in 14 years and will begin what company officials hope to be a doubling of its current Southern Nevada footprint over the next 10 years. This isn't the time or the place for discussion because of the litigation,” said attorney Marc Rubinstein, who was representing Red Rock Resorts.

Gaming Commission Chairwoman Jennifer Togliatti said the NLRB litigation “is very protracted and it's very complicated, and it's very prolonged,” meaning gaming regulators can’t act on the allegations. Similar to the board hearing, several Red Rock employees and managers spoke in support of the company as a good employer. “We hear the allegations, and they do concern us,” Solis-Rainey said.ĭuring both hearings, Culinary members, who have been seeking union contracts at Station Casinos properties in Las Vegas since the 1990s, said they were not rehired following the pandemic while others said they were targeted after the pandemic for their union-organizing activities. The Culinary has been in a more than two-decade feud with the company over union organizing efforts, and gaming commissioners noted there is active litigation pending with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). A similar action took place two weeks ago at the Gaming Control Board hearing. 20 opening.ĭuring the public comment session during the gaming commission meeting in Las Vegas, Culinary representatives and current and former Station Casinos employees spoke out against the company. “To see these kinds of disputes are just a little bit troubling to me and hopefully you can work them out,” said commission member Rosa Solis-Rainey before the panel unanimously approved licensing the Durango project ahead of its planned Nov. Red Rock Resorts has received its final regulatory sign-off for the $780 million Durango Casino and Resort, but members of the Nevada Gaming Commission said Thursday they hope the decadeslong feud between Culinary Workers Local 226 and Station Casinos - Red Rock’s operating subsidiary - will be resolved.

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