Commenting on the upcoming pickets, Eduardo Truebas Martinez, a cook at the Palms’ A.Y.C.E. Buffet, has said that employees at the property voted to unionize because they wanted “the same standard” as the rest of the unionized workers at the Las Vegas Strip, including “fair wages, job security, great health benefit.”
Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union Geoconda Argüello-Kline has said that it is time that Palms began contract negotiations and that their union has been certified as the bargaining representative after Palms workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of union representation in a free, fair, and National Labor Relations Board-approved election.
The first pickets are expected to take place in San Francisco, Washington D.C., New Haven, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, among others.