UFC responds to Culinary Union announcement
“This is nothing more than the newest brazen tactic in a failing effort to organize culinary workers at a Las Vegas casino. It is shameful …”
The notorious Culinary Union, aided by The Teamsters, is apparently going to try to organize UFC fighters. This comes on the heels of their effort to block a fountain at a proposed new UFC headquarters and of course their years-long effort to keep the sport out of New York.
Now the UFC has issued a formal statement.
The modern era of the UFC has seen incredible gains in athlete safety and compensation along with the mainstream success of a once marginalized sport. We are proud of this amazing record and consider it extremely duplicitous that the same labor union that has spent years demeaning UFC athletes, denouncing the sport of mixed martial arts, and doing everything possible to keep MMA out of New York, is now claiming to care about the interests of athletes in the UFC, read the statement to MMAWeekly.com.
Indeed, UFC has spent considerable time and effort defending against the outrageous allegations by this local union about athletes who have chosen to compete in the UFC. This is nothing more than the newest brazen tactic in a failing effort to organize culinary workers at a Las Vegas casino. It is shameful that local union leaders would try to use UFC athletes as pawns to advance this hidden agenda.
We are proud of our relationship with all athletes who have entered into contracts with the UFC, and we are proud to produce a product that is enjoyed by millions of fans around the world.
The Culinary Union’s latest move has been referred to delicately as a “thinly veiled attempt” at organizing Station Casino’s. “Thinly veiled” is an overstatement. It’s blatant.