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Las Vegas: Casino workers union launches website updating travel industry on labor relations in Las Vegas3 June 2013LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has launched www.VegasTravelAlert.org, a website intended as a service for meeting and convention planners and all other travelers who need to know whether labor disputes could affect their plans in Las Vegas. The website will be regularly updated with information about actual and potential labor disputes affecting Las Vegas casinos and the status of contract negotiations. Visitors to the site may sign up for email updates as well as find strategies to protect their event or travel plans from the possibility of being impacted by labor disputes. The need for such a website is seen as especially great this year: on June 1, 2013, union contracts covering 44,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas expired. This includes the majority of workers on the highly-visited Las Vegas Strip. If new contracts are not settled, there is the potential for labor disputes, even strikes, to result. Certain companies have signed contract extensions which will be detailed on the website. These extensions may be terminated on a few days notice. The Culinary Workers Union is the largest local affiliate of UNITE HERE and is one of the largest and fastest-growing union locals in the country. The vast majority of the union’s 55,000 members work at casinos on the world famous Las Vegas Strip and in the city’s downtown. They also work in food service outlets at McCarran International Airport and industrial laundries throughout the Las Vegas valley. Members of the Culinary Union work in a range of jobs, including cocktails, bell, kitchen workers, cooks, food servers, housekeepers, porters, and many more. Culinary 226 members continue to fight for quality and affordable health care, a secure retirement, owning a home and sending their kids to college. The Union remains strong with a growing membership and thousands of active union members. |