With only a few hours to go before a strike deadline, the last of three Las Vegas casino companies reached labor deals with the city’s most powerful hospitality workers union, ending the threat of a labor stoppage in one of the nation’s hottest tourist destinations. Culinary Workers Union Local 226 said Friday that it reached a new five-year contract agreement with Wynn Resorts Ltd. The deal means 5,000 workers won’t walk off the job, joining another 30,000 workers for Caesars Entertainment Inc.
“After 7 months of negotiations, we are proud to say that this is the best contract and economic package we have ever won” in the union’s 88-year history, Ted Pappageorge, the union’s secretary-treasurer, said in a statement. The hospitality standoff was the latest in a series of high-profile labor disruptions from Hollywood to Detroit, where workers sought to flex newfound leverage from a tight labor market to get better deals than they could in recent years.