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Inside Gaming: 2 Strip casinos sign new union agreements, more

Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 have reached three-year deals with Resorts World Las Vegas and The Cosmopolitan hotel-casinos, covering close to 4,500 employees across both properties. The tentative agreements include “the largest wage increases ever negotiated in Culinary Union’s 90-year history,” according to dual news releases.

“Nothing in our nine decades came easily. Victories are the result of militant worker organizing, sacrifice, and determination,” said Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union. “We are proud to celebrate a 100 percent unionized Las Vegas Strip and Culinary Union’s legacy of making hospitality jobs in Las Vegas family-sustaining jobs. This victory is a win for workers, the company and the future of Las Vegas.”
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“I’m so happy because we won a new union contract that’s going to benefit us all with fair wage increases and more protections at work,” said Lucila Zamora, a guest room attendant at Resorts World and Local 226 member for 13 years.

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“The most important parts of the contract for me is winning more job protections, room credit reductions so that guest room attendants have a safer workload and working conditions, and strong economic package and wage increases that we won,” said Stella Kalaoram, a room stylist at The Cosmopolitan who was been a union member for 9 years.

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