🙌 Culinary Union marks the organization’s 90th year
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 is celebrating its 90th anniversary as an organization this month. The union was chartered on Nov. 1, 1935, and currently has more than 60,000 members. Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge remarked that the union has achieved 100 percent representation on the Strip. The Culinary also owns the record for the longest continuous strike in U.S. history for the six-year, four-month and 10-day picket line in front of the Frontier Hotel and Casino that ended in February 1998. “We’ve fought for laws that keep workers safe, won billions in raises and benefits, and elected shop stewards to office,” Pappageorge said.