The contracts cover non-gaming employees, including guest room attendants, servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, laundry workers and kitchen workers at about 50 Strip and downtown properties. It’s disappointing that we are still so far apart from the casinos after months of negotiations with the largest three gaming companies in Las Vegas.”Ĭulinary officials say they are negotiating for wage increases lowered housekeeping quotas and mandated daily room cleanings stronger on-the-job safety programs extended recall rights and more. Workers have built this industry and made it successful and that’s why we are demanding that workers share in that prosperity. “As companies reduce labor, there are less workers who have even more responsibilities and are doing more work instead of spending quality time with their families, and that has to change. Companies are generating record profits and we demand that workers aren’t left behind and have a fair share of that success,” Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary union, said in a statement. “We are negotiating for the best contract ever in the Culinary union’s history to ensure that one job is enough. Properties have been operating under extensions since the last city-wide contract ended on June 1. There have been multiple rounds of negotiations with the top three employers on the Strip - MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts - but still have not reached tentative agreement for a new five-year contract. The union said it hasn’t set a strike deadline and continues good faith negotiations with the gaming companies. If a majority of the workers vote yes, the negotiating committee for Culinary and the associated Bartenders Local 165 will be authorized to call for a strike, according to a Thursday news release. 26 at Thomas and Mack Center for more than 53,000 hospitality workers at Strip and Downtown Las Vegas properties. The union said it will hold a strike vote on Sept. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye Las Vegas Review-Journal) workers and the resort industry in Las Vegas have until late September to finish contract negotiations or else their union will hold a strike vote, Culinary Local 226 announced Thursday.

Workers are demonstrating for higher pay in their stalled negotiations with Sodexo Live, which operates the Centerplate food concession at the Convention Center. Culinary Union workers picket in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center, on Thursday, Feb.16, 2023, in Las Vegas.

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