All of the major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized following a historic labor victory for workers.
The Culinary Workers Union, which represents around 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada, has achieved the historic feat on the Las Vegas Strip, which will have a profound effect on many of the people who keep the tourist mecca ticking over.
One of those is Susana Pacheco, who first started working at the Venetian 16 years ago.
She told ABC how she believed that appointment would provide her with a springboard of stability to protect her infant daughter, but the intervening years have been marred with struggle, in a cycle of low pay and little support.
She says she has not had any kind of safety net until now.
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As for Pacheco, she has intimated how the new terms have transformed her working life, with a positive impact at home. Unreasonable targets for cleaning hotel rooms are now gone, with the uptick of better pay and time off.
“Now with the union, we have a voice,” she added.