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Culinary Union urges Nevada regulators to review Durango GM’s past role in alleged decertification effort
Summary
At the commission’s Dec. 18 meeting, Culinary Union representatives urged scrutiny of Durango Casino & Resort general manager David Horne after documents and texts raised questions about his role in a 2020 decertification effort at Palace Station, and urged the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s standards be enforced if federal findings substantiate unlawful activity.
At the Nevada Gaming Commission’s Dec. 18 meeting, Ira Duyannen of the Culinary Union told commissioners he had contacted the Nevada Gaming Control Board about David Horne’s licensing history and outlined documentary evidence and text messages tied to a 2020 decertification effort at Palace Station. “If GM Horne were directed to assist Station Casinos in violating federal labor law … we assume you would have a serious problem with that,” Duyannen said.
Duyannen told the commission the union learned Horne was first registered in June 2006 and that the…
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