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Labor deals a new hand
Cooper, Marc | March 24, 1997 issue

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The article reports that labor confidence in Las Vegas is high these days. Nowhere is the union movement growing faster than here, in the United States' fastest-growing city. Unions have always had a formidable foothold in Las Vegas. And the unions have gone through successive stages of sweetheart deals with the big casino employers, stagnation and sweaty standoffs. But as Vegas's growth skyrocketed in the past decade, the unions have been agile enough to keep pace. The labor expansion has been led by Local 226 of the Culinary Workers, which has also doubled in size in ten years to some 40,000 members, and which just won a grueling three-year face-off for recognition by the world's biggest hotel, the MGM Grand.

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LABOR movement; SOCIAL movements; LABOR unions; GAMBLING industry; UNITED States; LAS Vegas (Nev.); NEVADA
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