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After months of negotiating with MGM Resorts, Caesars, Resorts World and Wynn, Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge announced on Thursday that the union has officially set a deadline for Nov. 10 at 5 a.m.
Culinary officials say the two sides are far apart on the union’s calls for higher pay, better benefits and lighter workloads for housekeepers.
The Culinary will have informational pickets in front Strip resorts on Thursday operated by MGM and Caesars and the union is asking visitors to not cross the lines.
Results of the vote would authorize negotiating committees to call for a strike by some 53,000 non-gaming Strip and downtown casino employees.
After 14 years, the Fontainebleau Las Vegas will finally welcome guests in December. For Colleen Birch, she can now finish what she started back in 2009.