A vote is expected to take place in the coming days.Ī sweeping walkout could still happen if the union cannot make deals with MGM Resorts, the state’s largest private employer, and Wynn Resorts by 5 a.m. “Life can be hard out there so I understand what they’re fighting for.”īethany Khan, the union’s spokesperson, said terms of its deal with Caesars would be made public once approved. “I try to stand in solidarity with other workers,” he said. But he said if a tentative contract hadn’t been reached and a strike coincided with his travel plans, he would have ditched his dinner reservations. Guray said he didn’t know that tens of thousands of hotel workers were in the middle of contract negotiations before he planned his trip.

The only item on his itinerary? A dinner reservation with a friend at one of his favorite restaurants - Bacchanal, the luxury buffet at Caesars Palace.

Outside Caesars Palace on Wednesday, Joshua Guray told The Associated Press he came in on a morning flight from Los Angeles and planned to be in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. The contract, which is pending approval by the union’s rank and file, would cover properties including the company’s flagship Caesars Palace and Flamingo, Harrah’s, Horseshoe, Paris Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood, Cromwell and Linq. The breakthrough pact with Caesars came after 20 straight hours of bargaining that began Tuesday and stretched into Wednesday morning, the union said.Ĭaesars said in a statement that the agreement “recognizes the integral contributions our Team Members have made to the success we have seen in Las Vegas over the last few years” with meaningful wage increases and opportunities for growth tied to plans to bring more union jobs to the Strip. But, he said, “I would say this is as close as we’ve come in a long time to an actual strike.”

“As soon as one company reaches a deal, the others just fall right in line,” said Bill Werner, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, whose research includes hospitality law and labor relations. The Culinary Workers Union had threatened to begin a strike in the pre-dawn hours Friday if negotiations failed.īut the union’s tentative agreement with CaesarsĪppeared to be providing the momentum needed for the union to win new contracts for all 35,000 of its members who have been working under expired contracts at 18 hotel-casinos.

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