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Culinary Union Increases Pressure

LAS VEGAS -- The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 today said it stepped up its effort to organize workers at the bankrupt Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

The union said it "alerted the entertainment industry on both coasts about the escalating labor dispute at the Aladdin Resort & Casino, soon-to-be Planet Hollywood Hotel & Casino Las Vegas."

"Planet Follywood Reporter" newsletters were mailed to more than 10,000 TV producers, studio and network executives, production companies, studios and networks around the country, the union said. The union also is promoting its anti-Aladdin website www.PlanetFollywoodWatch.org

The Culinary is pressuring the Aladdin and its buyer, a group led by hotel giant Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide and Planet Hollywood founder Robert Earl, to recognize the union as the bargaining agent for many Aladdin workers. The current Aladdin management isn't cooperating with the union.

Tyri Squyres, an Aladdin spokeswoman, said it's ironic that the union is attacking the hotel and its prospective buyers, when leaders of the Planet Hollywood/Starwood partnership buying the property have made efforts to reassure workers that their jobs are secure. She said that in July, the buyers placed a two-page advertisement in local newspapers in English and Spanish stating their appreciation for the Aladdin's workers.

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