MGM Resorts said it would comment on the union’s vote later today after the results were released. He emphasized that the union is negotiating “to ensure that one job is enough.” “Companies are generating record profits and we demand that workers aren’t left behind and have a fair share of that success,” Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the union, previously said in a statement. A walkout could impact more than three dozen casinos and hotels on the Strip and in downtown, the city’s economic backbone. The union is seeking better pay, benefits and working conditions as it bargains with the top employers on the Las Vegas Strip, including MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment. Some 53,000 housekeepers, cocktail and food servers, porters, cooks and bartenders in Las Vegas are taking part. Results of the vote are expected to be released today night after a second round of votes are cast in the evening. The Culinary Workers Union, a political powerhouse in Nevada, hasn’t gone on strike in more than three decades. There’s been increased labor organizing in recent years across multiple industries - from strikes to work stoppages - and today’s vote will take place on the same day President Joe Biden joined United Auto Workers strikers on a picket line in Michigan.

LAS VEGAS > Tens of thousands of hospitality workers who keep the iconic casinos and hotels of Las Vegas humming were set to vote today on whether to authorize a strike amid ongoing contract negotiations.

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