Las Vegas Strip casinos fully unionized after historic Culinary Workers Union victory

All of the major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized following a historic labor victory for workers.

The Culinary Workers Union, which represents around 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada, has achieved the historic feat on the Las Vegas Strip, which will have a profound effect on many of the people who keep the tourist mecca ticking over. 

One of those is Susana Pacheco, who first started working at the Venetian 16 years ago. 

She told ABC how she believed that appointment would provide her with a springboard of stability to protect her infant daughter, but the intervening years have been marred with struggle, in a cycle of low pay and little support. 

She says she has not had any kind of safety net until now.

The Venetian has opposed all attempts for workers’ collective bargaining for the last 25 years, but a recent change of ownership has reversed that policy. Just as Las Vegas Strip newcomer, the Fontainebleu, has agreed terms with the union, the Venetian has followed suit. 

Culinary Union has been winning a better life for workers in Las Vegas since before the first casino opened on the Strip in 1941.