Outside Caesars Palace on Wednesday, visitor Joshua Guray told The Associated Press he came in on a morning flight from Los Angeles and had planned to be in Las Vegas for less than 24 hours.
The only item on his itinerary was a dinner reservation with a friend at one of his favorite restaurants — Bacchanal, the luxury buffet at Caesars Palace.
Guray said he didn’t know that tens of thousands of hotel workers were in the middle of contract negotiations before he planned his trip. He said if a strike had coincided with his travel plans, he would have ditched his dinner reservations rather than cross a picket line.
“I try to stand in solidarity with other workers,” he said. “Life can be hard out there, so I understand what they’re fighting for.”
A sweeping walkout could still happen if the union doesn’t win contracts before Friday for 20,000 workers at MGM Resorts and 5,000 workers at Wynn Resorts, which will return to the bargaining table Thursday with the union.