Dave Jamieson has been HuffPost's labor reporter since 2011. Before joining the D.C. bureau, he was a staff writer at Washington City Paper and a freelancer contributing to Slate, the New Republic, the Washington Post and Outside magazine, among other outlets.
Thousands of service workers in Las Vegas are preparing to go on strike Friday if they can’t settle new contracts with two of the city’s major hotel and casino operators.on a new contract with Caesars Entertainment early Wednesday after 20 hours of bargaining. But the union says Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts must reach similar deals by a Friday morning deadline to avoid workers walking off the job and hitting the picket lines.
“We’re not going to stand by and have workers shortchanged,” he said during a Tuesday press conference. “The companies’ proposals would be the best contracts we’ve had in history. It’s just not enough.” Pappageorge declined to share the union’s specific demands in dollar amounts when pressed by reporters. But he said the union was calling for the largest first-year wage increase of any five-year contract in its history.
Several workers have been arrested in acts of civil disobedience related to the contract fights, the union said.Las Vegas authorities arrest members of the Culinary Workers Union along the Strip on Oct. 25. The union has been in contract fights with Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts and Wynn Resorts.Leain Vashon, a bell captain at the Caesars-owned Paris Las Vegas and a longtime union leader, said the new trio of contracts are “the most important” that the union “has ever negotiated.
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