What's the Labor Situation at the Rest of the Vegas Casinos?

With all the recent press about the Culinary Workers Union, I keep seeing only some of the Strip hotels mentioned as possible strike “targets.” What is the labor contract status of the remaining hotels/casinos on the Strip and downtown?

After negotiating into the wee hours of three consecutive mornings, Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts, and Wynn Resorts reached accords with Culinary Union within minutes to spare before the strike deadline on November 10. The left-leaning Las Vegas Sun published an editorial that the Culinary was being “irresponsible” by threatening to strike a week before the Las Vegas Grand Prix, but it sure worked.

That left a large number of Las Vegas Strip and downtown casinos unaccounted for, although they are expected to fall quickly in line, signing to terms generally corresponding to those agreed to by the Big Three. Enjoying a contract extension are …

On the Strip: Circus Circus and Treasure Island (owned by Phil Ruffin), Four Seasons, Hilton Grand Vacations, Mirage (Hard Rock International), Rio, Sahara (Alex Meruelo), Strat (Golden Entertainment), Tropicana (Bally's), Trump (co-owned by Ruffin), Virgin Las Vegas, Waldorf Astoria, and Westgate.

Downtown hotels currently enjoying an extension are: Binion’s and Four Queens (TLC Group), Circa and the D (Derek Stevens), Downtown Grand, El Cortez, Fremont (Boyd), Golden Gate (Stevens), Golden Nugget (Tilman Fertitta), Main Street Station (Boyd), and Plaza Hotel (Tamares Group).

You may be wondering about the Venetian and its sister Palazzo missing from this list. That’s because owner Apollo Management agreed to allow the Culinary to conduct an on-site unionization campaign. Apollo even assented to unionization by card-check, generally considered much easier to win than secret-ballot elections.

Stay tuned.

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Jon Anderson Nov-11-2023

union deal

can you spell L E V E R A G E ??? 
good for the members to receive a better wage and hopefully better working conditions too...now if the big guys will also hire back and staff their properties to previous levels, then it's a win for everybody...well, maybe the big guys take a bit of a hickey with the new deal but they should find solace with continued record revenues...when will corporate folk learn that they actually produce little while the workers on the front lines actually get 'er done???

churchiec Nov-11-2023

PALMS / WESTGATE etc

Are they/will they be part of this agreement ?  Same Q for South Point, M and Station Casinos

churchiec Nov-11-2023

OTHER STAFF

I see that guest room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, laundry and kitchen workers are part of the Culinary Union.  I wonder what dealers / valet people / slots staff think about their fellow workers ( but not them) getting this 'victory'

jay Nov-11-2023

Gouge city

While I believe everyone deserves to live the American dream this is just another opportunity for the mega resorts to bump up their room and restaurant rates or follow the trendy style of adding a hidden sur-charge that you will not see until the bill comes. Aka a new culinary fee. Look “ steak and eggs 1.99” - franchise sur charge 7.00, Nevada hospitality sur charge 11.00, table fee 3.00, environmental fee 4.00, international visitor fee 6.00, mandatory side bet 2.00 ….. sales tax on all of the about $15 …..and the list goes on.

grouch Nov-11-2023

casinos win again

the losers in this will be the customers as all the casinos will do is raise there prices and maybe the locals will stop supporting the casinos but with all of the different things going on in the long run the casinos are the winners again

Susan Johnson Nov-11-2023

Union

Isn't the left supposed to support unions?

Kevin Lewis Nov-11-2023

Aw, too bad

I really wanted to see all the casino hotels shut down while the FU-1 cars spun round and round. Whee!

Of course, any increased costs will be passed on to the poor Vegas sucker, er, visitor. Those of you who own casino stocks can breathe easy--it's been shown that Vegas lemmings, er, tourists, will literally pay anything for the privilege of visiting Sin City.

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