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Virgin Hotels gives Culinary Union ‘last offer,’ but workers not backing down

“After five months they finally made a movement on wages, but it is woefully inadequate and substandard,” Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the Culinary Union said during a press conference Thursday. “These are not second-class workers, and we’re not going to allow them to be treated second-class by any company in Las Vegas.”

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“We all know where the Virgin is at,” he continued, referring to the several wealthy investors that own Virgin Hotels, including an oil and gas investment firm. “But the idea that somehow they’re not able to pay the contract. We just disagree."

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