The deal also would apply to the off-Strip Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. If the contract agreement sticks, a walkout would not affect Caesars’ Las Vegas Strip properties: Bally’s, Flamingo, Harrah’s, Paris, Planet Hollywood, The Cromwell, The Linq and Caesars Palace, including Nobu.
If there is a strike, visitors could see workers picketing outside casino-hotels still in negotiations, including Aria, Bellagio and Mandalay Bay.Ĭompanies have declined to provide details of their contingency plans, but hospitality experts say the properties will remain open, with replacement workers and managers carrying out additional tasks. They have started signing up for strike pay, financial assistance and picketing shifts.ĭozens of workers gathered Friday to put together bilingual picket signs reading “Las Vegas hotel and restaurant workers, MGM Resorts, on strike.” The walls of what they christened as their strike headquarters had maps of properties operated by MGM with the entrances clearly marked. Workers have voted to authorize a strike, but no date has been set.
