The hospitality industry is breathing a sigh of relief on Friday as MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, and Caesars Entertainment reached a tentative deal with Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165, averting a strike that would have had devastating implications for the city—and just a week before Formula One Las Vegas is set to roll into town.
35,000 hospitality union employees—housekeepers, bartenders, servers and others—had threatened to walk out on Friday if negotiations failed. The Las Vegas strike would have been the largest in U.S. history, targeting the Las Vegas hotels operated by MGM Resorts, Caesars International and Wynn Resorts, and affecting most of the major resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, including the Aria, Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, New York-New York, Park MGM, Caesars Forum, Caesars Palace, the Flamingo, Harrah’s, Horseshoe, Paris, Planet Hollywood, The Cromwell, The Linq, the Wynn and the Encore resort.
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