Labor Organizations

(1) Each labor organization, union or affiliate seeking to represent employees who are employed at a gaming establishment shall register with the commission in accordance with 205 CMR 134.05. (2) Within 30 days of the date on which it begins organizing activities directed at the employees who are employed in a gaming establishment, a labor organization, union or affiliate shall file with the Division of Licensing a labor organization registration statement in accordance with 205 CMR 134.08. Organizing activities shall include, without limitation, soliciting membership by means of any direct personal contact, or any public notices such as the posting or distribution of fliers, posters or advertisements. (3) Neither a labor organization, union, or affiliate, nor its officers who are not otherwise licensed or registered as a key gaming employee, gaming employee, gaming service employee, gaming vendor, gaming vendor qualifier, or non-gaming vendor, may hold any financial interest in a gaming establishment whose employees are represented by the labor organization, union, or affiliate.