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Winning for 90 Years (2025)

For 90 years, Culinary Union has fought and won for working families in Nevada. Since November 1, 1935, generations of cooks, guest room attendants, servers, and kitchen workers have built a movement that transformed this state. Culinary Union members organized to build what working families needed most - security. In nine decades, we are proud to have created the Culinary Health Fund, the Pension Fund, the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, the Citizenship Project, the Housing Fund, the Legal Service Fund, and now, our network of 4 Culinary Health Centers deliver world-class care to over 120,000 Culinary Union members and their families. As we continue to celebrate the Culinary Union’s 90th anniversary, we honor every member who marched, struck, sacrificed, and organized to build this union, but our fight isn’t over. Station Casinos workers and 10,000 non-union restaurant workers on the Las Vegas Strip are organizing to win the Las Vegas Dream, and we have their backs. For nearly a century, the Culinary Union has been the beating heart of working-class power in this state, and we will continue to organize, strike, and vote to protect what our parents and grandparents built. Some of the highlights from the past year: *In 2025, Culinary Union won a new contract at Virgin Las Vegas after the longest strike in more than two decades. For the first time in more than 20 years, the Culinary Union led its longest strike, taking workers at Virgin Las Vegas out in an open-ended strike that began November 15, 2024 and ended 69-days later on January 22, 2025. We fought for and won a new 5-year union contract for 700 hospitality workers. *For the first time in Culinary Union’s 90-year history, 100% of all casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip are unionized. The Culinary Union celebrates this historic milestone, recognizing generations of hospitality workers who organized and sacrificed to win a better future for working families.   *On April 2, 2025, the Culinary and Bartenders Unions, together with the Culinary Health Fund, hosted the grand opening of the third state-of-the-art Culinary Health Center. Located in North Las Vegas, the Culinary Health Center - Craig provides expanded access to high-quality primary and preventive care for tens of thousands of union members and their families. The fourth Culinary Health Center - Tropicana opens in 2026! *Culinary Union relocated its headquarters from Downtown Las Vegas to a new campus on Spring Mountain Road. The new Culinary Union campus is a wise investment that makes our union stronger, ready to take on big corporations, and win strikes. It is a source of power and financial security for our union family - for now and the next 90 years. We’re going to keep fighting for workers in this city, from the casinos in Downtown Las Vegas to the non-union restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. Here’s to the next generation of organizing, fighting, and winning!