“A vote such as this is an expected part of the process,” the company said in a statement after results were released. MGM said it will keep meeting with the union. operate more than half the properties that would be affected by a strike. MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment Corp. “We’ve been in negotiations with the companies, and they are not giving the workers what they deserve according to the economy right now,” Geoconda Arguello-Kline, union secretary-treasurer, said after the first voting session. Union officials have said they want to increase wages, protect job security against the increasing use of technology at hotel-casinos, and strengthen language against sexual harassment. The contracts of 50,000 unionized workers are set to expire at midnight May 31, and negotiations with individual casino- operating companies have not led to agreements for new terms.

“This will be a wake-up call to let know we are together, we are united, we are not separated.” “I’m here to show the younger generations that this is the way we fight to maintain our jobs, job security, health benefits and to gain a pay raise,” Lewis Thomas, a utility porter at the Tropicana casino-hotel, said. It also could cause problems for fans heading to the city to watch the Vegas Golden Knights hockey team play in the Stanley Cup Final in early June, a rare feat for a team in its first year. It would affect properties including Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, Bellagio, MGM Grand, Stratosphere, The D and El Cortez.

The latest strike would mean losing workers with roles critical to making a casino-hotel run: bartenders, housekeepers, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks and other kitchen workers.

The last strike, in 1984, spanned 67 days and cost the city and workers tens of millions of dollars. The union last voted for a strike in 2002 but reached a deal before employees walked out. The move hands union negotiators a huge bargaining chip as they work to solidify new five-year contracts. L as Vegas casinos could watch tens of thousands of employees walk off the job for the first time in more than three decades after union members voted to authorize a strike at any time starting June 1, a move that could cripple the city’s world-famous resorts.Ībout 25,000 members of the Culinary Union who work at 34 different casino-resorts across the tourist destination cast ballots in two sessions Tuesday, showing the collective power of the largest labor organization in Nevada. Culinary Union leaders wrap up a vote on whether to authorize a strike

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