New five-year collective bargaining agreements with a cumulative 32 percent wage increase were overwhelmingly ratified before Thanksgiving by some 40,000 non-gaming Strip employees, ending a prolonged contract stalemate that lasted more than seven months and averting a potential strike on the eve of last week’s Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Culinary Workers Local 226 Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge praised the contracts with Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts as “securing billions [of dollars] for working families in Nevada.”
Members of Bartenders Local 165, an affiliated labor organization, are also covered by the new contracts.
Pappageorge said workers will receive a 10 percent wage increase in the first year of the contract and a combined 32 percent raise over the life of the deal, raising the average wage to $37 per hour.
