The unions have not set a strike deadline. A spokesperson for Wynn said the company would have no comment.

MGM and Caesars did not immediately return requests for comment Thursday, and neither did the Las Vegas Hospitality Association. The unions, which are trying to reach an agreement for new five-year contracts, have not made their exact wage proposals public.

The union has complained that hotels have retained pandemic-era practices, which have meant reduced staffing in some areas, such as housekeeping.įrom the archives (May 2023): Hotel housekeeping jobs have fallen by 102,000 during the pandemic. Pappageorge said the union is concerned about issues including wages, benefits, workload reductions, technology protections, safety, the right to strike and bringing more workers back to work. Swung to a profit in the second quarter compared with a loss during the same quarter a year earlier. Last month reported quarterly financial results that beat analysts’ expectations, while Caesars CZR, “Companies are generating record profits and we demand that workers aren’t left behind and have a fair share of that success.” “We are negotiating for the best contract ever in the Culinary Union’s history to ensure that one job is enough,” Ted Pappageorge, the secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Workers Union, said in a statement. Workers, unions and the hotels are now operating under a contract extension, which requires either side to give seven days’ notice if they feel negotiations are unsuccessful and, in the unions’ case, if a strike may be necessary, according to a spokesperson for the Culinary Workers Union. The unions said they have had multiple rounds of negotiations with the top three Las Vegas hotel owners - MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts - since contracts expired June 1, though some affected workers are employed by other hotels as well.

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