The Tropicana Las Vegas and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract Wednesday covering more than 300 hospitality employees at the Rat Pack-era hotel-casino, but the deal may not last the full term.
The resort’s Strip location is designated as the site of a $1.5 billion baseball stadium for the relocated Oakland Athletics and developers have said the 1,500-room hotel-casino needs to be closed and demolished to allow for construction on the 33,000-seat stadium to begin by April 2025.
A spokeswoman for the union said Thursday that redevelopment and closure language covering job protection, worker recalls, placement in other jobs, health care, seniority and other protections is written into all of the labor organization’s contracts and is part of the Tropicana agreement.
