Potential Strike Looms as Las Vegas Union Members Demand Workplace Improvements

Las Vegas Strip workers are gearing up for a citywide strike vote that could see over 50,000 employees, including housekeepers, bartenders, and other staff, walking off their jobs. 

The Culinary and Bartenders Unions members are scheduled to cast their ballots on September 26, with a majority vote potentially authorizing a future strike.

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If the strike is approved, workers are demanding several key improvements. They seek lighter workloads, enhanced on-the-job security measures, and a wage increase, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Most of these employees currently work in hotels, casinos, coffee shops, and restaurants along the Las Vegas Strip and downtown Las Vegas.

The affected properties encompass casino resorts, including those managed or owned by Caesars Entertainment, Inc CZR, Wynn Resorts, Limited WYNN, and MGM Resorts International MGM, and hotels like Trump Hotel Las Vegas and the Waldorf Astoria, which do not offer on-site gambling. 

The Culinary Union, Nevada's largest labor union, and the Bartenders Union, representing a combined total of 53,000 workers with contracts up for negotiation, intend to continue bargaining with hotel and casino companies ahead of the strike vote. 

This move follows the unions' historical pattern of calling for citywide strike votes during contract negotiations, as seen in 2018. 

Back then, a strike was authorized but ultimately averted through a negotiated 5-year contract set to expire this year.

Many other companies, including Amazon.Com Inc AMZN, are amid unionization attempts and strikes by workers over pay and working conditions.

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