It was a message that Pappageorge and the workers would repeat for months as negotiations ramped up and the union threatened to go on strike if they didn't have contracts by first light on Friday with MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts.īut by dawn Friday, the union had secured tentative labour deals with all three companies, narrowly averting a sweeping strike at 18 hotel-casinos along the Strip.

Without it, Pappageorge said in one of many news conferences since April, 'the jobs of tens of thousands of workers are in jeopardy of cutbacks and reduction.' Over seven months of tense negotiations, mandatory daily room cleanings underscored the big issues that Las Vegas union hotel workers were fighting to address in their first contracts since the pandemic: job security, better working conditions and safety while on the job.įrom the onset of bargaining, Ted Pappageorge, the chief contract negotiator for the Culinary Workers Union, had said tens of thousands of workers whose contracts expired earlier this year would be willing to go on strike to make daily room cleanings mandatory.