Former Wynn Resorts employees allege firings were in retaliation for union support

Former Wynn Resorts Las Vegas employees Napco Sharma and Randall Crank filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging the operator terminated their employment in retaliation for showing support to unionize. 

Within the complaints filed on September 10, both Sharma and Crank also alleged that Wynn Resorts directed managers to spy on employees at the Las Vegas property, according to a release from the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 501. 

If the allegations are to be proven true, they would fall in violation of the National Labor Relations Act, a law originally passed in the US during 1935.

In response, Wynn Resorts chose to “strongly deny” the allegations, and believes the “unsubstantiated claims” will eventually “found to be without merit” once all facts related to the complaints are reviewed. 

Sharma stated he, Crank and fellow Wynn Resorts employees had been attempting to unionize “for years,” only to discover the operator would “figure a way out of it” and “discipline people and fire people” after each attempt. 

Elsewhere in Las Vegas, Red Rock Resorts began seeking intervention from the US Supreme Court on September 2 in hopes of delaying the operator's compliance with a previous order from the National Labor Relations Board to begin negotiating with a union.

The Board’s decision was upheld by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on June 10, which denied Red Rock Resorts’ first attempt to pause the mandate while challenging the decision at a higher court. 

Red Rock Resorts requested an emergency stay be granted by the Supreme Court to delay any compliance requirements, despite having been penalized in 2022 for engaging in “serious and pervasive” unfair labor practices during a Culinary Union organizing campaign.

In 2024, the National Labor Relations Board issued its first mandatory bargaining order to Red Rock Resorts after finding the company committed unfair labor practices during the run-up to a 2019 union election.