Supporting the Culinary Union - and their 60,000 members in Las Vegas and Reno - in the unionization fight could prove helpful for the Democratic presidential hopefuls seeking to clinch a victory in the state’s first-in-the-West caucus in February. Bernie Sanders ignited a wave of tweets from candidates - including Biden - calling on Station Casinos to negotiate with Palms employees and voicing their support for the casino workers.

The former vice president is far from the first Democratic presidential hopeful to weigh in on the fight between Station Casinos and the Culinary Union, but he appears to be the only one to have done so by penning a formal letter to the company’s CEO. “These workers have earned their seat at the negotiating table and they are legally entitled to recognition,” Biden said. He called on Fertitta to allow employees of the two properties to begin negotiating for health care, benefits and other employee protections. Former Vice President Joe Biden wrote a letter to the head of Station Casinos last week calling on the company to immediately begin negotiating with workers at two of its properties who voted to join the Culinary Union more than a year and a half ago.īiden told Station Casinos CEO Frank Fertitta in the letter that it is both “deeply troubling” and “unlawful” for a company to fail to recognize the results of legitimate union elections, such as the ones at Green Valley Ranch and the Palms Casino.

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