The hospitality workers say they will strike for as long as it takes to get fair contracts - from the housekeepers and utility porters who work behind the scenes to keep the Strip’s mega-resorts humming, to the bartenders and cocktail servers who provide the customer service that has helped make Las Vegas famous.

The inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix course will feature sweeping views of many of the casinos still at risk of walkouts: Aria, Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Park MGM and Wynn and Encore resorts. That includes walkouts in Hollywood, UPS’ contentious negotiations that threatened to disrupt the nation’s supply chain, and the ongoing hotel workers strike at Detroit’s three casinos, including MGM Grand Detroit. It would also be the latest in a series of high-profile actions nationwide in what has been a big year for labor unions. He said if a strike had coincided with his travel plans, he would have ditched his dinner reservations rather than cross a picket line.Ī strike by workers at the two remaining companies still would cut to the heart of the city’s economic backbone and significantly disrupt operations at some of the most recognizable Las Vegas hotel-casinos as they prepare to host hundreds of thousands of people for next week’s Formula 1 debut on the Strip. 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 was a dinner reservation with a friend at one of his favorite restaurants - Bacchanal, the luxury buffet at Caesars Palace. Outside Caesars Palace on Wednesday, visitor Joshua Guray told The Associated Press he came in on a morning flight from Los Angeles and had planned to be in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours. The pact with Caesars came after 20 hours of bargaining that began Tuesday and stretched into Wednesday morning.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.

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