Vegas workers vote authorizes a stike

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from the articles:


"Tens of thousands of Las Vegas hospitality workers fighting for new union contracts voted Tuesday to authorize a strike that could impact more than three dozen casinos and hotels, the city's backbone

Hospitality workers in Las Vegas have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike against major resorts along the Strip, a critical step toward a walkout as the economically challenged city prepares for major sporting events in the months ahead.


Although a vote is a forceful step, it does not guarantee that workers will strike before hashing out a new contract deal with the major resorts. Contracts for roughly 40,000 housekeepers, bartenders, cooks and food servers at MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts expired on Sept. 15, after being extended from a June deadline. Other workers remain on extended contracts that can be terminated at any time."


apparently casino dealers and Managers and other casino personnel are not part of the vote to strike - but of course would be affected by it


I'm betting a strike does not actually happen - that there will be some resolution


https://apnews.com/article/vegas-hos...528b0d9417c3cb




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The Culinary Union -- which as you wrote above basically encompasses most of the strip maids, bartenders, cooks, and food servers -- will cripple these resorts if they strike.

It's way too big and powerful. The major resorts have no choice but to back down to their demands every time. This is a growing problem.

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

The Culinary Union -- which as you wrote above basically encompasses most of the strip maids, bartenders, cooks, and food servers -- will cripple these resorts if they strike.

It's way too big and powerful. The major resorts have no choice but to back down to their demands every time. This is a growing problem.

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A growing problem for who?
The Evil Empire???
GTFOH!

Druff is anti union. What a jew

I would think that most people on here would be anti-union because of the conservative politics that dominate.

I guess the evilness of casinos trumps all of that.

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I would think that most people on here would be anti-union because of the conservative politics that dominate.

I guess the evilness of casinos trumps all of that.

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Anti-Union???
That's dumb... really Fucking Dumb.
Power to the People!
I hope they strike and shut the strip down!!
Honestly, I do.
I will go out there and literally picket with them.
I have Family in that Culinary Union... it's a damn good union... really good for the worker.

Wife and i were walking into new frontier years ago during a strike. One picketer called my wife a whore among other things and came towards us. I took his sign, gave him a shot in the stomach with the pole end, then whacked him over the head with the other end.
Then we calmly walked into the casino. No repercussions. But we did exit a different way later on.

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Wife and i were walking into new frontier years ago during a strike. One picketer called my wife a whore among other things and came towards us. I took his sign, gave him a shot in the stomach with the pole end, then whacked him over the head with the other end.
Then we calmly walked into the casino. No repercussions. But we did exit a different way later on.

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Obviously, an outlier experience.
And in a different era.
This is like a 1 in 100,000 chance or more.
If it was more common, you would have gotten stomped by 20 other crazies.
This isn't some sort of BLM Riot.
And why would anyone want to go into a place that is being picketed outside in a hostile situation?
If I see a bunch of crazies outside a building... I'm going somewhere else.
I've been in the Frontier and remember it well.
Not exactly the place where you want to risk getting beat down to get into but I get your point.
It's like going to Jerry's Nugget and saying I'm going into this Casino no matter what!!

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I would think that most people on here would be anti-union because of the conservative politics that dominate.

I guess the evilness of casinos trumps all of that.

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You forgot that most of these people are basically bums who figured out a way to beat a few games. They work as little as possible for just enough to get by. Most are too dumb to capitalize on their opportunity.

Unions suck balls because no one should just get paid for showing up to work and putting in time. Unions have put the country back probably a 100 years. If it wasn’t for unions we probably would have flying cars and better more affordable health care choices. Unions lol another Jedi slave mind trick lol. Pay your dues to the master of the union sheep.

Imagine getting paid 90 per hour on Sundays to check out groceries at some of these union grocery stores lmao ! Replace every union job with a robot give them a bag of weed and some porn and be done with them

Maybe if the schools would teach people how money actually works people could get out of their fat blob ass way and do something productive. Instead we have a country of drug addicted lazy queers flipping genders and blobbing around doing nothing. Union dues !!!! Lol imagine a real grown ass man begging for a raise, and paying dues to a union boss lol beta Fucks.

I would Just close up all these places declare bankruptcy and tell them to go kick rocks.

Yeah... I know... Corporations should make billions, but the little guy should make 7 dollars an hour and get stiffed by you stiffs lol.
You Fuckers make me sick.
I pray every single night that the Truckers and Rail Workers would not only Strike but quit and force all of us to starve.
And the Farmers too but it's all monoculture farms now owned by the Evil Empires like Monsanto.
You Fuckers have no clue... you could have easily been born in the middle of Siberia somewhere, Fucked for your entire lives.
So Fucking Lucky to be born where you were and in the time of peace for your surroundings.

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Yeah... I know... Corporations should make billions, but the little guy should make 7 dollars an hour and get stiffed by you stiffs lol.
You Fuckers make me sick.
I pray every single night that the Truckers and Rail Workers would not only Strike but quit and force all of us to starve.
And the Farmers too but it's all monoculture farms now owned by the Evil Empires like Monsanto.
You Fuckers have no clue... you could have easily been born in the middle of Siberia somewhere, Fucked for your entire lives.
So Fucking Lucky to be born where you were and in the time of peace for your surroundings.

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My big argument for unions is that often people can't really pick up and move. That requires a certain level of resources that many don't have or it would just be so much. (uprooted, kids changes schools, wife loses job, etc) So the local industry can take advantage of it.

It is good for the local people that they have jobs but the flip side is that situation can easily be abused by the corporation. There is no concept of a 'market wage'. If they want to work they're stuck at the only employer in town.

Unions definitely level the playing field.

The problem is when the workers seem to use leverage to get more than they're worth. It brings about resentfulness.

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Originally Posted by monet

Yeah... I know... Corporations should make billions, but the little guy should make 7 dollars an hour and get stiffed by you stiffs lol.
You Fuckers make me sick.
I pray every single night that the Truckers and Rail Workers would not only Strike but quit and force all of us to starve.
And the Farmers too but it's all monoculture farms now owned by the Evil Empires like Monsanto.
You Fuckers have no clue... you could have easily been born in the middle of Siberia somewhere, Fucked for your entire lives.
So Fucking Lucky to be born where you were and in the time of peace for your surroundings.

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Drop me anywhere with nothing I will win. Did that bet already … pay the gay ass union leader slave Brains
Need some Fraud to lead them to slave wages

To stupid to realize the unions play them. But keep thinking those dues get the workers Fair rep lol . All business were started by a few people most of the time only one . Lol suck the dick of unions big waste of time

Had a union job during college best thing I ever did was to quit. Scam shit

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Originally Posted by monet

Yeah... I know... Corporations should make billions, but the little guy should make 7 dollars an hour and get stiffed by you stiffs lol.
You Fuckers make me sick.
I pray every single night that the Truckers and Rail Workers would not only Strike but quit and force all of us to starve.
And the Farmers too but it's all monoculture farms now owned by the Evil Empires like Monsanto.
You Fuckers have no clue... you could have easily been born in the middle of Siberia somewhere, Fucked for your entire lives.
So Fucking Lucky to be born where you were and in the time of peace for your surroundings.

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My big argument for unions is that often people can't really pick up and move. That requires a certain level of resources that many don't have or it would just be so much. (uprooted, kids changes schools, wife loses job, etc) So the local industry can take advantage of it.

It is good for the local people that they have jobs but the flip side is that situation can easily be abused by the corporation. There is no concept of a 'market wage'. If they want to work they're stuck at the only employer in town.

Unions definitely level the playing field.

The problem is when the workers seem to use leverage to get more than they're worth. It brings about resentfulness.

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Level the playing field lol they just need the right guy to break em. Be willing to go out of business walk away and let them scramble around for jobs. Take the money and close up. Reopen without a union or don’t . Or keep doing the fake negotiating skim the union dues like they do under the table to keep the slave force. Fucking union haahaaaa

We have fords gay ass son to thank for unions.

The mob loves unions lmao keep paying those dues so Joey and Tony can buy whatever they want hahahahahahaha

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We have fords gay ass son to thank for unions.

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I like how Yellow Corp / Yellow trucking handled the teamsters

Hahahahahahahaahahahah lolololol

Gone all those jobs hahahaahahahahaha

Can they strike now ? Hahahahahah

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and better more affordable health care choices.

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IMHO the primary reason why healthcare is so poor is because the brightest minds go into theoretical physics and mathematics (since these fields are very challenging and interesting). So the healthcare industry is left with the retards.

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and better more affordable health care choices.

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IMHO the primary reason why healthcare is so poor is because the brightest minds go into theoretical physics and mathematics (since these fields are very challenging and interesting). So the healthcare industry is left with the retards.

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At least most physicists & mathematicians can tell the difference between left & right.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-aust...as-been-fined/

“ A surgeon in Austria who was sued for amputating the wrong leg of a patient is now facing the consequences. Earlier this year, the doctor amputated the right leg of an elderly patient – even though the left leg was supposed to be amputated.”

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and better more affordable health care choices.

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IMHO the primary reason why healthcare is so poor is because the brightest minds go into theoretical physics and mathematics (since these fields are very challenging and interesting). So the healthcare industry is left with the retards.

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At least most physicists & mathematicians can tell the difference between left & right.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-aust...as-been-fined/

“ A surgeon in Austria who was sued for amputating the wrong leg of a patient is now facing the consequences. Earlier this year, the doctor amputated the right leg of an elderly patient – even though the left leg was supposed to be amputated.”

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Great point Ben - thanks for posting the link. These are the same cunts that leave sponges and surgical instruments inside peoples' bodies when they sew them up after surgical procedures.

Most of that stuff isn't by accident of retardation, etc. Same as, say, Von Braun to head up the start of NASA.

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Von Braun is a highly controversial figure widely seen as escaping justice for his Nazi war crimes due to the Americans' desire to beat the Soviets in the Cold War. He is also sometimes described by others as the "father of space travel", the "father of rocket science", or the "father of the American lunar program". He advocated a human mission to Mars.

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According to a 2011 BBC documentary, the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, while a further 12,000 laborers and concentration camp prisoners died as a result of their forced participation in the production of the weapons.

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FUCKING A RIGHT!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!

The last time the union went on strike was in 1991, when 550 workers stayed on the picket line around the clock for 6 years, 4 months and 10 days at the Frontier, the union said. Not one worker crossed the line, and all were brought back to their jobs and provided back pay, it said.

The union in previous strikes has literally shut down Las Vegas.

In 1970, the Culinary and Bartenders unions staged a three-day work stoppage against 16 properties, forcing casinos to go dark for the first time since they opened, the union said.


STRIKE
STRIKE
STRIKE
STRIKE
STRIKE

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Originally Posted by Dan Druff

The Culinary Union -- which as you wrote above basically encompasses most of the strip maids, bartenders, cooks, and food servers -- will cripple these resorts if they strike.

It's way too big and powerful. The major resorts have no choice but to back down to their demands every time. This is a growing problem.

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A growing problem for who?
The Evil Empire???
GTFOH!

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I have to agree with Monet on this one. I ripped into UAW and SAG over on PFA, but if the unions want to milk the casinos for everything they possibly can, more power to them.

The only casino union 'demand' I've ever seen that I thought was ridiculous was the notion that employees should be permitted to be moved to non-smoking areas, essentially at will, or some such. Maybe it was that they wanted the casinos to simply go non-smoking, idk. Ridiculous, either way. If you don't want to be exposed to cigarette smoke, then don't apply to be a casino dealer and then subsequently accept the job at a casino that allows smoking. That seems pretty fucking easy.

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Imagine getting paid 90 per hour on Sundays to check out groceries at some of these union grocery stores lmao ! Replace every union job with a robot give them a bag of weed and some porn and be done with them

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Where are grocery stores paying $90/hour? I have grocery experience. LOL

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Had a union job during college best thing I ever did was to quit. Scam shit

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Some are. At least, sometimes.

That was my grocery store experience. Chain grocery store, but they used to franchise. High school and my first few years of college.

Anyway, we were United Steelworkers because...wait...what the fuck does grocery have to do with being a steelworker?

We were guaranteed a $0.10/hour raise, or maybe $0.05/hour, every six months, and started at $5.15/hour. I guess we got paid Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving. If you worked on those days (except we were completely closed on Christmas) you effectively got triple time because you got double time for working and still got paid for the holiday.

The part that was really dumb was USW got some percentage of us. Could you imagine that? Taking money from a 17 year old kid working at a grocery store all because your union managed to guarantee him Federal Minimum Wage as well as a $0.05 or $0.10/hour raise every six months. I don't remember the particulars, but I did the math once and figured out you'd have to work there for five or seven years (with the guaranteed raises) before you finally got to the point that you were better off than just making the $5.15 the entire time.

I also got shuffled around from grocery supervisor to deli, but that's because both of our other stores owned by the same guy closed. One flooded and he didn't have adequate coverage; the other closed because it couldn't compete with a Wal-Mart in another town. Anyway, I got moved because the other grocery supervisors had seniority and one of the managers also came over. I didn't mind that. I was in college at that time, so I'd rather move than dudes with families not have a job.

The point is, I'm Mr. Company Man, right? Come in when called in. Learned every position in the store (except meat department because you had to be licensed), etc. I could literally cover for any manager in the building.

But, all of a sudden, I'm getting customer service complaints out of thin air. That included one that was just me following store policy on deli hours, which I was told was never negotiable. What ended up happening was I got canned and the union did nothing for me, but that's fine, because I made WAY more money writing research papers for the other students. You wouldn't believe what I made per page. As it turned out, the deli manager ended up getting fired for stealing and she had trumped up the customer service complaints because she thought I was starting to figure out what she was doing. Really, I just didn't understand where some of the inventory had gone and went to her suggesting that I could be the one to check the order against the manifest in the future if she was super busy.

So, that's my union experience. I'm not opposed to unions as a rule though. It depends on the union.

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Imagine getting paid 90 per hour on Sundays to check out groceries at some of these union grocery stores lmao ! Replace every union job with a robot give them a bag of weed and some porn and be done with them

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Where are grocery stores paying $90/hour? I have grocery experience. LOL

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In your neck of the woods there are union shops paying cashiers 30 plus an hour Straight time that get triple time on Sundays and double time on holidays. The seniors on older contracts. Nothing like that being offered to the new hires. Union wages just drive up prices for everyone, and impede progress. Everyone should be compensated based on performance. Your situation is a perfect example. You were outworking everyone and couldn’t get paid what you were worth. Nope wait for that 5c raise lol. Eventually everyone quits working hard because there’s no real incentive. What’s left are a bunch of mediocre slaves complaining about their smoke breaks, and bragging about how little work they get done for the pay.

Labor unions are a net negative for the United States in so many ways.