The threatened strike would have been due to start at 5 AM local time Friday.Ī strike at almost all of the city’s major casinos would have come at a particularly bad time. Negotiations are due to take place Thursday at the remaining company facing a Friday strike, Wynn Resorts, but the threat of the largest hospitality strike in US history has largely ended.
The deal, announced in a tweet by the union, comes a day after a similar deal was reached with Caesars Entertainment that averted a strike by 10,000 other union members at nine casinos operated by that company.īoth those tentative agreements need to be ratified by rank-and-file members before they can take effect and end the risk of a strike altogether.
The Culinary union has reached a deal with MGM Resorts International covering 25,400 members, averting a strike at eight casinos that had been set to start Friday.
