Terms of the deals weren’t immediately released, but the union said in its statement the proposed five-year contracts will provide workers with historic wage increases, reduced workloads and other unprecedented wins - including mandated daily room cleanings.īefore the pandemic, daily room cleanings were routine.

In a statement, Wynn Resorts said it was pleased to reach an agreement that “fulfills our shared goal of providing outstanding benefits and overall compensation to our employees in a work environment that is second to none.” The agreement covers employees at the company’s flagship hotel-casino and Encore Resorts.Ĭhristine Cook, a uniform control attendant at Wynn Resorts, said in a statement provided by the union that her favorite part about the new contract “is the wage increases and the retroactive pay because it will help my family and I have a better future and achieve our dreams.” 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.ĮXPLAINER: What the United Auto Workers will gain in their historic contractsīut by dawn Friday, the union had secured tentative labor deals with MGM Resorts, Caesars and Wynn Resorts, narrowly averting a sweeping strike at 18 hotel-casinos along the Strip. Agreements with MGM and Caesars - the Strip’s two largest employers - came earlier in the week, while the agreement with Wynn Resorts was announced just a few hours before the strike deadline. “Las Vegas needs to be full service,” he said last month. LAS VEGAS (AP) - 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.

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