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 pact with Caesars came after 20 hours of bargaining that began Tuesday and stretched into Wednesday morning.Ĭaesars said in a statement that the agreement 'recognizes the integral contributions our Team Members have made to the success we have seen in Las Vegas over the last few years' with meaningful wage increases and opportunities for growth tied to plans to bring more union jobs to the Strip. The union caught a break at dawn Wednesday when it reached a tentative deal with Caesars that covers 10,000 workers at the company's flagship Caesars Palace, as well as Flamingo, Harrah's, Horseshoe, Paris Las Vegas, Planet Hollywood, Cromwell and Linq. Since April, the union has been fighting for new five-year contracts for its members who work at 18 properties owned or operated by MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts.

The casino company's CEO Bill Hornbuckle had said Wednesday in an earnings call at the same time negotiations were taking place in a casino ballroom that he was confident a 'historic' agreement would come together before that time.

Experts said that move would have been catastrophic for the Las Vegas Strip. The union had threatened to begin a strike in the pre-dawn hours Friday at properties along the Strip if negotiations failed. MGM didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press. The union said on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the agreement followed nearly 20 hours of negotiating.

The Culinary Workers Union announced the tentative 5-year agreement Thursday that it said covers about 25,000 workers at the Aria, Bellagio, Excalibur, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, New York-New York and Park MGM. LAS VEGAS - The Las Vegas hotel workers union reached a deal with MGM Resorts International, the largest employer on the Las Vegas Strip, on the heels of its breakthrough agreement with Caesars Entertainment.

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