With only days left until thousands of Culinary Local 226 members on the Las Vegas Strip threatened to go on strike, negotiations took a bit of skill and several late nights to wrap up.
“It’s a little bit like landing three planes at once,” secretary-treasurer Ted Pappageorge said before Caesars Entertainment negotiations on Tuesday. “We’re prepared here to stay tonight as long as it takes.”
Those preparations included late-night babysitters and throw blankets in the negotiation rooms.
Social media videos posted by the union show MGM Resorts International workers cheering at the close of bargaining at 5:45 a.m. Thursday. Caesars Entertainment workers were up until a similar time early Wednesday — one video showed several draped in their blankets in a Horseshoe resort ballroom meeting space. And Wynn Resorts workers scrambled to resolve bargaining before the 5 a.m. Friday strike deadline, ultimately wrapping up at about 2 a.m. that day.
