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Las Vegas hotel workers union reaches deal with casino to end longest strike in decades

For months the union maintained around-the-clock picket lines outside the hotel-casino that's within walking distance of the Strip and along a common route between the main tourist corridor and the city's international airport. Throughout the strike, the union publicly criticized Virgin Hotels for hiring temporary workers who crossed the picket line.

Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Reps. Dina Titus and Steven Horsford also joined workers on the picket line.

The union last went on strike in 2002, when employees at the Golden Gate hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas stopped working for 10 days.

The Culinary Union is the largest labor union in Nevada with about 60,000 members statewide. Most of them are in Las Vegas.

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