The Strip Is Now Completely Unionized Thanks to a New Agreement at Fontainebleau Las Vegas | Eater Vegas

"After a year-long effort, a monumental agreement was reached in late February 2025 at the Las Vegas resort, securing a new contract for 3,300 employees — including guest room attendants, bartenders, food servers, porters, cocktail servers, bellmen, cooks, and kitchen workers. Reported by KSNV, the agreement spans from January 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028 and places workers under the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165 umbrella. The pact is a milestone for casino workers, marking the first time in Las Vegas’s 90-year history that every major Strip resort is unionized. The deal secured a larger wage increase, workload reductions, safety protections, the right to be recalled to work, and the right for unionized workers to support non-union restaurant workers seeking to unionize. In an email statement, Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge wrote: “This milestone agreement not only guarantees job security and fair wages, but also upholds the high standards the Culinary Union has tirelessly fought to establish across Las Vegas.” The agreement followed intense labor activity in recent years, including threatened 2024 strikes at 13 casinos ahead of Super Bowl LVIII and a 2023 tentative agreement with Nevada’s three largest gaming employers — MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, and Wynn Resorts — reached hours before planned union strikes." - Mona Holmes