Contracts expired in summer 2013
Members of Las Vegas’s Culinary Union Local 226 have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if their representatives do not reach new deals with a number of stand-alone casinos, the union has announced.
A statement from the union said more than 99 percent voted for the authorization. It could lead to a walkout if the union does not come to terms with Binion’s, the El Cortez, Four Queens, the Fremont, the Golden Gate, the Golden Nugget, the Las Vegas Club, Las Vegas Plaza, Main Street Station and the D.
More than 5,000 members were eligible to vote, the Associated Press reported. The Culinary is Nevada’s largest union and represents about 55,000 hospitality workers. And Local 226 is the largest Unite Here local in the United States.
Union officials have been negotiating with the casinos since their contracts expired last summer. The Culinary and the Bartenders Union have already reached new five-year deals with LVH, the Stratosphere, the Riviera, the Tropicana and Treasure Island. MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment also have negotiated new five-year union pacts.
The last strike in Las Vegas began at the Frontier in 1985 and ended in 1991, six years later.
