The Culinary Workers Union announced it has reached a tentative agreement with six more hotel casinos in downtown Las Vegas and called off a strike deadline for another. The latest agreements averted a Monday morning walkout threat at several near the Strip and downtown properties as the city kicks off Super Bowl week.
On Saturday morning, the union had announced it reached a tentative five-year contract agreement with Binion’s, Four Queens, Freemont, and Main Street. The new 5-year deal is set to impact about 1,000 workers associated with the establishment. Meanwhile, on Sunday, the union reached a tentative agreement with Downtown Grand, which represents about 200 workers.
STATEMENT: Culinary Union members comprise a major component of Nevada’s middle-class and in these negotiations, we proudly won our fair share of record profits by securing historic protections and billions in raises for working families in Nevada. https://t.co/906V5TnY49 pic.twitter.com/flYyir4B7c
— Culinary Union (@Culinary226) February 5, 2024
The culinary and an associated bartenders union are being given more time to reach an agreement with Virgin Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Strip’s three largest employers, including MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, and Wynn Resorts, reached deals late last year with the union that covered 40,000 members, narrowly averting a historic strike. The union then turned its attention to winning the same contract terms for workers at other hotel-casinos in Las Vegas.
Since early January, the union had settled negotiations with most of those properties including Circus Circus, Sahara Las Vegas, the Strat, Circa Resort, and the El Cortez.
But after hitting a snag in negotiations with some of the remaining casinos, the union announced last week that it would go on strike if tentative contracts weren’t in place by 5 a.m. Monday for downtown casino workers at properties that hadn’t reached agreements, as reported by the Associated Press.
The NFL’s 58th championship game is expected to bring some 330,000 people to Las Vegas this week, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The Culinary Union is the largest in Nevada with about 60,000 members statewide. It negotiates on behalf of its members for five-year contracts.
