Reducing workload and steep housekeeping room quotas, mandating daily room cleaning, and establishing the right for guest room attendants to securely work in set areas.

The largest wage increases ever negotiated in the history of the Culinary Union.

Workers in Detroit were driven to a strike over the same issues that workers in Las Vegas have brought to the negotiating table, Pappageorge said, so if Culinary is repeatedly unable to get the “best contract” it will be forced to go on strike as well.

They have made boatloads of money on the backs of our hard work.

“We are the workers who helped these companies weather the storm of the pandemic. “We’re fighting for respect,” Johnson said during Monday’s news conference with Pappageorge and other union members. They’re showing us the way.”Ĭasino workers in Detroit began striking last week in an ongoing fight for “economic justice,” health care, greater contributions for retirement, protections regarding jobs and technology and more, said Jamil Johnson, a food server at MGM Grand Detroit. “I think right now, our plans are to bargain very hard and to work closely with our brothers and sisters in Detroit. “I don’t think we’re interested in the (resorts) knowing what our plans are,” Pappageorge said. “We’re working through proposals and preparing to bargain with them, but I think it’s time for them to make significant moves if they really do want to try to resolve this without a strike. “We’re hoping for the best in bargaining,” Pappageorge told the press. And our goal is to send a message to these companies that it’s time to bargain.” I can’t wait to be out in the middle of the Strip on Wednesday night with my brothers and sisters that are going to join us out there for this nonviolent civil disobedience. It is estimated that 75-100 protesters will block Strip traffic and will likely be arrested.ĭuring a press conference yesterday, Culinary Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said: “I’m very excited.

In advance of further negotiations with MGM, Caesars and Wynn and days prior to a Wednesday evening “rally” scheduled to block traffic on the Las Vegas Strip, Culinary Union 226 has put the casino industry “on notice” that a strike is imminent if the union and the industry do not reach an agreement at the bargaining table.Ĭulinary announced plans to picket outside the Bellagio and the Paris Las Vegas on Wednesday evening.

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