LAS VEGAS, Nev. Standing outside Culinary Union headquarters on Spring Mountain Road on Oct. 27, union president Diana Valles made a specific financial claim about the company Nevada’s largest casino union has been fighting for seven years. “Station Casinos,” she said, just had the best financial quarter in its history.
The claim does not match the company’s own most recent financial filing. Red Rock Resorts, the publicly traded parent of Station Casinos, reported in August that net revenue for the quarter ending June 30 fell 3.0% from a year earlier, to $510.3 million, while net income dropped 29% to $76.6 million.
No quarter since has been reported publicly. Red Rock Resorts is scheduled to release its third quarter results on Nov. 3, a week after the press conference where Valles made her claim.
Two Nevadas checked every quarter Red Rock Resorts has reported since the start of 2025. None of the company’s own earnings releases claimed the kind of superlative Valles used. The closest the company itself has come is calling results a first quarter record for net revenue in April 2026, the kind of seasonal milestone a growing company can clear every year, and a ninth consecutive quarter of record third quarter net revenue in October 2025, a full year before Valles spoke.
Neither release called itself the company’s best quarter ever, and the quarter Red Rock actually reported most recently, the one ending in June, fell on nearly every measure instead.
Seven Years From a Rejected Vote to a Federal Order
The financial claim is one line in a much longer fight. In December 2019, employees at Red Rock Casino Resort Spa in Summerlin voted against joining the Culinary Union, 627 to 534, according to the National Labor Relations Board’s own case summary.
The board later found that Station Casinos management had committed roughly 50 unfair labor practices before and after that vote, including introducing a new benefits package days before employees filed to organize, then using it to discourage the union.
Because the board found the misconduct too severe for a fair re-vote to be possible, it ordered Red Rock to recognize and bargain with the union anyway, a remedy courts call a Gissel bargaining order, without a new election. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit enforced that order in full on June 10, denied Red Rock’s request for a rehearing on Aug. 6, and refused to pause the order on Aug. 24 while the company sought Supreme Court review. Red Rock filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Aug. 29. Chief Justice John Roberts denied it on Sept. 4, without an opinion, letting the bargaining order stand.
Seven and a half weeks later, Culinary Union secretary treasurer Ted Pappageorge stood with Nevada Attorney General and gubernatorial nominee Aaron Ford and U.S. Reps. Dina Titus, Steven Horsford and Susie Lee to say Station Casinos had run out of excuses. “It’s time to lay down the sword and pick up the pen,” Pappageorge said. He added that the union has offered bargaining dates in November.
Station Casinos has not responded publicly to Tuesday’s event. In its Supreme Court filing, the company argued the labor board’s order “nullifies the Red Rock team members’ vote to be union free,” and has said it intends to continue seeking Supreme Court review of the underlying decision even as it complies with the order in the meantime.
What the Order Requires Right Now
- Recognize and bargain. Red Rock must negotiate with the Culinary Union and Bartenders Union on request, the core of the order the Supreme Court left in place.
- Post federal notices at three properties. Red Rock Casino, Boulder Station and Palace Station must each post NLRB notices describing the violations, which the union said as of the press conference had not yet gone up.
- Undo the June 2020 changes. The notice at Red Rock specifically requires rescinding unilateral changes to employment terms the company made on June 4, 2020, in the middle of the pandemic.
- Stop the conduct that caused all this. The order bars Red Rock from threatening organizing workers or using anti union materials found to have violated federal labor law.
Two Numbers Nobody Has Audited
The quarterly earnings claim was not the only figure Valles offered without a cited source. She also said workers at Red Rock and Green Valley Ranch, a second Station property under a separate but related board order, earn about $14,400 a year less on average than Culinary members working under union contracts on the Strip. Station Casinos, for its part, has told reporters the opposite: the company says it already pays its employees more than Culinary members receive at other Las Vegas casinos.
Neither figure comes with underlying pay data the public can check. The clearest point of comparison available is the citywide contract Culinary ratified with MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts after 2023’s strikes, which raised a cook’s wage at a Caesars property from $25 to $28 an hour, more than $58,000 a year at full time hours. Neither Station Casinos nor the union has published a comparable, job by job wage schedule for Red Rock or Green Valley Ranch that would let an outside party test either claim.
What is verifiable is the scale of what a first contract would cover. The union says more than 5,300 workers unionized across eight Station Casinos properties before the pandemic, a high water mark reached through a string of separate organizing votes at other properties over the past decade, before Red Rock’s own 2019 vote failed and had to be overturned by the labor board instead.
Red Rock Resorts reports its third quarter results on Nov. 3. Until then, the “best financial quarter in its history” Valles described at Tuesday’s press conference remains a claim without a filing to match it, in a dispute where both sides are already arguing over numbers neither has put on the record.
