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Winning for 90 years (2024)

Culinary Union celebrates 90 years of winning for workers in Nevada - For nearly a century, the Culinary Union has fought and won for working families in Nevada. Since November 1, 1935, generations of cooks, guest room attendants, servers, and kitchen workers have built a movement that transformed this state. From the 1949 Reno–Sparks strike, to the 1984 Citywide walkout that shut down the Las Vegas Strip, to the 6 year, 4 month, and 10 day Frontier Strike that became the longest and most successful in U.S. history, working people have shown time and time again that when we stand together, we win Culinary Union members organized to build what working families needed most - security. In nine decades, we are proud to have created the Culinary Health Fund, the Pension Fund, the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, the Citizenship Project, the Housing Fund, the Legal Service Fund, and now, our network of 4 Culinary Health Centers deliver world-class care to over 120,000 Culinary Union members and their families. We’ve fought for laws that keep workers safe, won billions in raises and benefits, and elected Shop Stewards to office - all while never forgetting where our power comes from: Rank-and-file workers who have organized to win a better future. This year, as we celebrate the Culinary Union’s 90th anniversary, we honor every member who marched, struck, sacrificed, and organized to build this union. Because of their courage and solidarity, the Las Vegas Strip is now 100% union. That victory was decades in the making, but our fight isn’t over. Station Casinos workers and 10,000 non-union restaurant workers on the Strip are organizing to win the Las Vegas Dream and we have their backs. For nearly a century, the Culinary Union has been the beating heart of working-class power in this state and we will continue to organize, strike, and vote to protect what our parents and grandparents built.