The ads paint a picture of corporate caring with smiling faces of an ethnically blended workforce apparently well pleased with their employment status.

In reality, Station Casinos and the behemoth Culinary Union Local 226 continue their legal wrestling as the end of another year approaches.

The battle that’s been waged for the past two decades only figures to get uglier from here as the labor organization slowly gains a foothold. U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro ordered the company to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith. In its statement at the time, the union called the ruling an important breakthrough.