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Striking Culinary Workers Shut Down the Las Vegas Strip

Striking members of Las Vegas’ Culinary Workers Local 226shut down the Las Vegas strip by blocking strip traffic, resulting in 98 arrests. 

The union is one of Las Vegas’ most powerful with 54,000 members that is protesting against the Cosmopolitan Casino. Contract negotiations have been underway for the last 18 months with no resolution.  Picketing began on March 1, 2013 but today was the first time the group utilized civil disobedience to get their point across.

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