
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, March 7, 1992                   TAG: 9203070171
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WARM SPRINGS                                LENGTH: Short

HOMESTEAD UNION VOTE CONSIDERED

An attorney for the Homestead resort testified at a labor hearing Friday that all of the hotel's employees should be permitted to vote on union representation.

Local 863 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union has asked for representation of 450 employees, less than half of the total of 1,100 who should vote, according to the hotel.

The Homestead's attorney, Greg Robertson, said he questioned two employees in a National Labor Relations Board hearing to show that the hotel departments "are so integrated and intertwined that you can't separate them."

Cathy Thomas of the union said the hotel "didn't show any relationship in job duties or skills" and they had minimal transfers from one department to another. She called the company's arguments "delaying tactics."

William Boddie, NLRB hearing examiner, adjourned the session until March 17 at 10 a.m. Thomas predicted that the hearing on the size of the appropriate bargaining unit will be extended over four or five days. - Staff report

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