Las Vegas workers reach deal with Caesars but could still strike

Las Vegas workers potential labor strike overview: 

• Who: Caesars Entertainment reached an agreement earlier this week with the Culinary Workers Union, which represents hospitality workers at Las Vegas hotel-casinos. 
• Why: The agreement comes as workers at MGM Resorts International threaten to go on strike if they are not given new contracts they believe to be fair.
• Where: The potential MGM hospitality worker strike would affect the Las Vegas Strip.

A deal between the Las Vegas hotel workers union and Caesars Entertainment last week appears to be setting the table for a tentative new contract agreement for around 20,000 hospitality employees at MGM Resorts International. 

Experts speculate that an agreement between MGM and the group of hospitality employees with the Culinary Workers Union would prevent a strike from happening along the Strip, ABC News reports.  

The Culinary Workers Union, which represents around 60,000 workers in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, had reportedly threatened to lead a strike early Friday if no deal was reached between MGM and the hospitality workers. 

The hospitality workers reportedly said they were planning to go on strike indefinitely until they were given contracts they believed were fair. 

The tentative agreement with Caesars, meanwhile, seems to be helping the union secure new contracts for all 35,000 members it represents who have been working under expired contracts at a total of 18 hotel-casinos, according to ABC News. 

Deal between Caesars, hotel workers union followed 20 straight hours of negotiations

The deal between the Culinary Workers Union and Caesars reportedly came after 20 straight hours of bargaining that began Nov. 7 and continued all the way into the morning of Nov. 8, according to the union. 

The contract, which is still pending approval, would encompass workers at Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Harrah’s, Horseshoe, Paris Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood, Cromwell and The Linq, ABC News reports.  

Caesars, in a statement, reportedly said the agreement recognizes the contributions its workers have made towards the success Las Vegas has achieved “over the last few years.” 

The deal, meanwhile, will give union workers significant wage increases and opportunities for growth as part of a broader effort to bring more union jobs to the Las Vegas Strip, ABC News reports. 

In other news involving MGM, the hospitality company was affected by a cybersecurity issue in September that led to outages in its ATMs, slot machines and websites, among other systems. 

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