In the early hours of Aug. 20, the Culinary Union announced that it had reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year labor agreement with the Venetian and Palazzo. The deal still needs to be ratified by the 4,000 non-gaming employees between the two casinos.
Details were not disclosed, but they are expected to fall in line with the deals reached over the last year with operators all over Las Vegas. Those included 32 percent raises over the life of the contracts and a slew of other worker protections. The Venetian-Palazzo deal is four years so that it aligns with the 2028 expiration of the other contracts.
The unionization of the properties is symbolic, as they represented the biggest union holdouts on the Las Vegas Strip under their previous owner, the late Las Vegas Sands founder Sheldon Adelson. Only Fontainebleau and Resorts World are left without contracts, although the former reached a neutrality agreement with the union before its December opening and the latter has refused to continue negotiations after its last offer was declined in May.
“We’ve always viewed time differently — this isn’t just about the here and now, it’s about building a legacy of fairness and dignity for working families in Las Vegas,” Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said in a statement.
