Wynn Resorts and Culinary Workers Local 226 reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract early Friday morning, hours before picket lines would have gone up in front of the company’s two Strip hotel-casinos.
The announcement follows similar contract negotiations achieved this week between the Culinary and its affiliated Bartenders Local 165 with Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International, which averted what would have been the first mass walkout of non-gaming union workers on the Strip in 39 years.
The tentative agreements, which will need to be ratified by employees at the 18 casino resorts operated by the three companies, cover more than 40,000 workers and establish the benchmark for the union to open contract talks with dozens of other resort operators in Las Vegas.
The agreement with Wynn covers 5,000 workers at Wynn Las Vegas and Encore.
