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Rivers Casino Supervisor Physically Assaults Casino Security Officer during Union Campaign

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Rivers Casino nightshift supervisor John Kovach had demanded that the 22 plus casino security professionals working on that shift remove their SPFPA Union RESPECT pins from their jackets. When they refused their supervisor John Kovach then Physically Assaulted at least one of the officers by Physically Removing his SPFPA RESPECT Button from his jacket.

 

You would think a casino in Pittsburgh would be union friendly since Pittsburgh is a UNION town, however this is not the case at Rivers Casino in downtown Pittsburgh. On Monday 84 casino security professionals including the surveillance officers will be voting this Monday November 9th to decide if they wish to be represented by the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) the largest, oldest and fastest growing 9(b)3 union in the United States Today.

The Rivers Casino has hired the notorious High Priced Union-Busting law firm of Jackson and Lewis.

"While management is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on
Union-Busters our Casino security professionals only make $9.50 per hour". stated Steve Maritas Organizing Director for the SPFPA.

Maritas also stated, Since SPFPA's appearance Rivers Casino has begun a series of mandatory Union-Busting meetings on a daily basis. At these Union-Busting mandatory meetings supervisors have been using psychological warfare and FEAR tactics against its employees. In addition these same supervisors in a desperate attempt to stop this Union drive have been threatening these officers with loss of wages and benefits and other conditions of employment if they choose to vote YES for the Union.

While some of these casino officers have naturally bought into this FEAR campaign, which is common in these types of Union-Busting campaigns the majority of these officers have stood strong and have seen right through the lies being told to them.

One Rivers Casino security professional who wished not to be identified in fear of retaliation stated we are united and educated on the Union-Busting tactics being used against us by Rivers Casino and their Union-Busting law firm Jackson and Lewis.

Every Union-Busting tactic being used against us could be found on this website. www.Unionbusting101.Com Word for Word.

These same casino security professionals are confident that they will win Mondays election, while Rivers Casino is showing it is frustrated that their Union-Busting FEAR campaign is not working. This is evident by the fact that just last night a Rivers Casino nightshift supervisor John Kovach had demanded that the 22 plus casino security professionals working on that shift remove their SPFPA Union RESPECT pins from their jackets. When they refused their supervisor John Kovach then Physically Assaulted at least one of the officers by Physically Removing his SPFPA RESPECT Button from his jacket.

Based on John Kovach actions and other illegal tactics being used by Rivers Casino and their supervisors the SPFPA has now filed Federal Charges with the NLRB.

In addition to the above the United Steel Workers USW is now conducting an organizing campaign to organize the rest of the departments in an effort to help improve their low wages, benefits and other conditions of employment.

About the Rivers Casino

The Rivers Casino is a joint venture between Walton Street Capital, High Pitt Gaming and Don Barden. Neil Bluhm, the Founding Principal of Walton Street Capital, has over four decades of experience developing commercial, residential and gaming properties. Greg Carlin, the CEO of High Pitt Gaming, LLC, has over a decade of gaming investment and management experience. Other casino projects owned and managed by Mr. Bluhm and Mr. Carlin include the Fallsview Casino Resort in Ontario, the Riverwalk Casino & Hotel in Vicksburg, MS, and the SugarHouse Casino in Philadelphia.

August 8 - Rivers Casino was Given Final Approval by Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

Tags: Rivers Casino, Casino Security Officers, Walton Street Capital, High Pitt Gaming, Don Barden, Neil Bluhm, Greg Carlin, John Kovach, Jackson and Lewis, Union Busting, SPFPA, Steve Maritas, USW, United Steel Workers

Comments

the rivers casino is the absolute worst working environment ever

During my (mistake) employment at this Casino (also known as a sweat shop) I had been harassed, stalked by a supervisor mentioned on this site, sexually harassed by a direct supervisor, and suffered daily at the hands of a very unstable co-worker. I have filed a law suit, and am hopeful that this establishment and its cohorts will pay dearly for its allowance of such treatment of innocent people, who are simply trying to earn a paycheck. If anyone thinks he or she will be content in this mafia type environment, I am afraid you are setting yourself up for a major disappointment. Your outlook on life and people will never be the same. Mark my words, I give this place two years and by what it has demonstrated and continues to demonstrate, the name the "Rivers Casino," will be just a sore memory.....

my trip to rivers casino

twelve inches to a yard and have you sounding like a retard

i heard this lyric in "shoop" by salt-n-pepa on the way home from the rivers casino today and i thought of all the retards going to the steelers game and holding up traffic so much that the detours created on account of the bumbling steelers fans subtracted a half-hour from the time that this gambling retard could have been gambling. they resembled a flock of zombies with their blessed steelers jerseys, walking around near the stadium and making me embarrassed to be human or have anything at all in common with them. it was like a fucking gay-pride parade, all these nitwits polluting the streets and stopping traffic, requiring police presence and keeping people from their activities while making an exhibition out of themselves. PITTSBURGH STEELERS FANS ARE A PUBLIC NUISANCE.

if they want to watch a football game, they should get in the fucking stadium and watch other people excel since they apparently need a crutch. they all should be drowned or buried alive, if you ask me, both the gay-priders and the football-priders. and i was told that i'd be harmed if i was outside of their field with a cleveland browns shirt on, therefore it's obvious that the pride of steelers fans is as much an intolerant facade as the "pride" that gay people are trying to facilitate though their parades which harbor their loud spite of different viewpoints and even of the person who runs the website known as anti-gay.com. i think air supply had a song about "pride parades," be them marches down the streets or just in front of a football stadium, it was called "making pride out of nothing at all".

if pittsburgh residents want to watch a football game, they should get in the fucking stadium and watch other people excel since they apparently need a crutch to get them through their semi-charmed kind of lives. if pittsburgh residents feel the need to belong, if they use camaraderie as a drug to alter their states of mind, facebook was DESIGNED to be that social drug. speaking of vampires, steelers fans should go feed on each others' livelihoods amongst themselves INSIDE of the stadium where they're not in the way of the better people who DON'T feel the need to feed on the presence of (or interaction with) others. if steelers fans are that much in need of identity, they should move to new york city and start auditioning on broadway for a new identity. dare i say "and start contracting aids," i don't want to offend any protected groups of people in new york city, broadway or even queens.

jack nicholson said "this town needs an enema," but as for pittsburgh...well, let me just say that pittsburgh eats too much hot oatmeal and therefore needs a cereal chiller. to reference maxwell sheffield's nemesis, i will say that the retards known as steelers fans need a phantom of heinz field to chill their cereal.

i was told that one negro donates his hair for breast cancer research, this makes me want to see someone sneak up on him and pull his hair. is donating his negro-hair even important, can't breast cancer be cured by cutting off feminists' breasts - preferably without anaesthesia? prostate cancer is more common , mens' lives are more important to save - why does the negro feel the need to donate his negro-hair to help save lives of members of the gender that society makes compensations for, when these very compensations name femininity as the "lesser" gender? dare i say "disabled," but i'm talking about the compensations known as gender-based military requirements, gender-based sports teams, gender-based hot dog eating competitions, gender-based fitness centers, gender-based spelling bees. oh, what's that, there are no gender-based spelling bees because spelling bees don't rely on physical strength and therefore are unlike the law that requires ONLY MEN to register for selective service in case of a national emergency that requires bodies built for actual strength and endurance? my mistake. shame on me for thinking that females need gender-based spelling bees because they can't spell as well as men.

twelve inches to a yard and have you sounding like a pittsburgh steelers fan or a woman.

dylan terreri, i
www.jaggedlittledyl.com, LLC

In response to the charges,

In response to the charges, the casino released a statement saying, in part, "Our management at no time would condone any behavior that might intrude upon workers' rights, and we will continue supporting our team members at every occasion."

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