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Originally Posted by NYCNative
Dealers: Would you rather be part of a union or not? Why or why not?
Absolutely. We need a collective bargaining agreement. To many times management just takes and takes and takes and the dealers without a contract can't do anything to protect themselves.
As far as Jeff's claim that a union means pooled tips it just isn't so. Many of the cocktail waitresses in town are union and they pool tips so the claim that a union means pooled tips is BS.
IN past years I have had the following things happen to me or friends that would not happen this way if we had a contract.
New manager comes in and stops scheduling me and some other dealers as were at the bottom of the extra board (Keep in mind that while I was at the bottom I was a 4 year employee) and gives dealing shifts to the woman hired as a cashier (she had no dealing experience and had less seniority as well)
New manager comes in and decides that all on-call-dealers are on call 24/7 on an hours notice.
Manager decides that no dealer (even extra board dealers getting only a few hours of work each week) can work in any other poker room.
Fulltime day one dealers walk into poker room to be met by manager and told effective today you are all part-time there is no more fulltime.
I was let go from a Fulltime position because of a business slowdown with NO NOTICE (our employee handbook tells us we are supposed to give them 2 weeks notice when we quit) no severance.
Fulltime dealers get fired for minor infractions with no progressive discipline, while part time dealers doing the same thing or worse get progressive discipline. Full Time position doesn't get filled ... figure out what is happening.
Tip pooling policies get changed to the detriment of dealers with no dealer input.
scheduling policies get changed to dealer detriment with no input from dealers.
management scheduling mandatory meetings outside of normal working hours on little or no notice.
Management changing dealer schedulers after posting them NO NOTICE.
Management changing rules regarding seniority.
Throughout town rooms are filling positions almost entirely with on call or extra board dealers.
Employers unilaterlly alter employee benefits including 401k match and health insurance.