Less than a week before the Stanley Cup Finals are expected to bring a flood of sports fans to Las Vegas, Nevada’s largest labor union has voted to authorize a strike that could paralyze the biggest casinos on the strip and cost the tourist magnet a fortune.
Tens of thousands of cooks, servers, bartenders and housekeepers have threatened to walk off their jobs as early as June 1 at 34 resorts, including Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood and MGM Grand, if the companies fail to ink a new five-year contract with the Culinary Union, which represents 50,000 hospitality workers in Sin City.