NLRB Board upholds dealer unionization vote at Trump Plaza

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Source: Newsday.com/ AP

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The National Labor Relations Board has upheld the unionization vote by dealers at Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, turning aside objections from the company that expressions of support by elected officials during the organizing drive tainted the vote.

The ruling was issued Friday and publicized by the United Auto Workers on Tuesday.

It upholds an earlier decision by an administrative law judge that the union election was fair.

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The board's ruling comes little more than two weeks before the union plans to hold a massive rally in Atlantic City to call on the four casinos where union votes succeeded to quickly reach agreement with workers on contracts.

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Trump Entertainment Resorts, Trump Plaza's parent company, may appeal the decision to a federal appeals court, spokesman Tom Hickey said.

"We are disappointed, and we're considering our options," he said.

Dealers at Trump Plaza voted 2-to-1 in favor of forming a union on March 31, 2007. But the company filed objections with the NLRB, claiming public comments expressing support for the union drive made by federal, state and local elected officials constituted unlawful interference with the union election.

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