Union plans third picket of Cosmopolitan on Las Vegas Strip

Looks like another one is coming June 14th 2013

A friend is a chef at the Cosmo. Hope he isn't affected.

It's a picket line, not a strike. And according to kev, it already happened about ten years ago.

Thanks for that! i updated it!

Last time 98 picketers were arrested for blocking traffic.
"Protesters shut down rush hour traffic for more than an hour in both directions on the block that is also home to the Bellagio, Aria and Planet Hollywood casinos."
Ref: NYDailyNews

DonDiego trusts they will choose not to break the Law this time.

I hope that's true for both the picketers AND the owners of the Cosmopolitan. Because conspiracy to evade almost $6 billion in taxes is almost as bad as blocking traffic for an hour, right?

The Cosmo has not earned a profit since it opened. Maybe they should just close the place.

Striking a place that hasn't even posted a profit strikes me as a little idiotic...

Of course.

For the record: DonDiego would prefer that the members and supporters of the Culinary Union Local 226 and all associates of Deutsche Bank, the reluctant owner of The Cosmopolitan, refrain from blocking traffic on Las Vegas Boulevard. And DonDiego would prefer that all associates of Deutsche Bank and members and supporters of the Culinary Union Local 226 refrain from participating in tax evasion.

[DonDiego cannot find documentation of the $6-billion tax evasion; perhaps forkushV can enlighten him. DonDiego can find that Deutsche Bank was an enthusiastic participant in the Great Bailout of 2008 - receiving almost $12-billion of taxpayer funds from the AIG collapse and borrowing over $2-billion from the Fed and selling over $290-bilion of "troubled assets" to the Fed. DonDiego opposes bailouts.]

Forbes: "Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, helped rich Americans report $29.3 billion in bogus tax benefits, mostly losses, on their tax returns and evade $5.9 billion in U.S. individual income taxes, according to a non-prosecution agreement filed in Manhattan’s federal court on Tuesday."

When union members block traffic, they are jailed and some people on this site are outraged. When banks are found guilty of conspiring to defraud the US Government out of almost $6 billion, no one goes to jail, and it's so commonplace, no one seems to get outraged.

Does that make sense?