LAS VEGAS — Picketing continued Sunday outdoors a hotel-casino close to the Las Vegas Strip that remained open with no talks scheduled between administration and union members hanging for a brand new contract.
Employees are looking for a pay elevate and advantages corresponding to pacts reached final 12 months at different resorts.
The walkout by the Culinary Employees Union laborers at Virgin Resorts Las Vegas comes every week earlier than the second annual Las Vegas Grand Prix is due to attract a whole lot of hundreds of followers for Method 1 racing on the Strip and close by streets. It’s the primary open-ended strike since 2002 for the biggest labor union in Nevada, which has about 60,000 members.
No new negotiations have been scheduled, stated union spokesperson Bethany Khan and Terri Maruca, media consultant for Virgin Resorts, proprietor of the 1,500-room property.
Maruca stated the corporate has fielded purposes from greater than 600 potential contract and momentary employees since Friday. The union pays hanging employees $500 per week for picketing shifts.
Visitor room attendants, cocktail and meals servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders and laundry employees are amongst these carrying picket indicators on the property, the place employees additionally staged a 48-hour job motion final Could to name for Virgin Resorts to conform to a brand new five-year cope with expanded advantages and elevated wages.
Different casinos on and off the Strip reached deadline agreements with the union simply earlier than the Method 1 race a 12 months in the past, with contracts containing wage will increase of about 32 % over 5 years for tens of hundreds of employees at properties together with the Bellagio, Paris Las Vegas, MGM Grand and Caesars Palace.
In a press release on Sunday, Virgin Resorts referred to as these contracts “economically unsustainable” and stated it needs a “reasonable agreement” for its 1,710 workers. It has accused union leaders of refusing to have interaction in “meaningful negotiations.”
Culinary Union members final went on strike in 2002 for 10 days on the Golden Gate hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas.