News of the vote at the Las Vegas Strip property was released last week by the Culinary Union. The vote took place on December 5 and was supervised by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Some 82% of the approximately 130 workers chose to affiliate with a union after a year-long effort. They include cooks, […]
“The opportunity to have amazing health care and not have to worry about when I can see the doctor or how much it will cost is very important to me,” Keila Cortez said. “It’s something we all need, especially as we get older. I’m proud to have negotiated a union contract and won a raise […]
Last month, Oscar Hernández couldn’t sleep. The cook, who worked at a restaurant located inside of a Las Vegas casino, had found that after coming home from his shifts, his body would not properly cool down. The air conditioning at work had been broken for about four months. Hernández worked eight-hour shifts during the restaurant’s […]
According to Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 in Las Vegas, an affiliate of UNITE HERE, “there are a lot of benefits for companies to sit down and talk to their workers.” Key among them is attracting and keeping talented workers. In an industry with high turnover rate, employee retention can make a huge difference […]
Jose de Jesus Zuniga, a cook at Alexxa’s inside Paris Las Vegas, watched last November as restaurant employees at the Strip resort celebrated the ratification of a new five-year labor agreement between Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and property operator Caesars Entertainment. He hopes to have that same experience one day. Alexxa’s, an American eatery […]
Und die Einkommen seien längst nicht so stark gestiegen.17 Dollar pro Stunde verdient Guerrero in seinem Job als Parkplatzwächter. Nach Steuern, Sozialabgaben, Kranken- und Autoversicherung blieben ihm monatlich rund 1100 Dollar übrig, sagt er. Aber für sein Apartment müsse er 1600 Dollar zahlen. Guerrero earns $17 an hour in his job as a [dishwasher at […]
The Culinary Union — an affiliate of Unite Here, the largest hospitality worker union in the country — announced the launch of a campaign to organize 10,000 non-union restaurant workers at casino resorts along the Las Vegas Strip, according to a release. The union’s drive to organize along the Strip began last week at Eataly Las Vegas […]