Culinary and Bartenders Union members yelled from picket lines outside Park MGM on October 12. A chorus of car horns from Las Vegas Boulevard chimed in.
“MGM, look around! Vegas is a union town!” the chants continued in a sea of red shirts and picket signs.
According to Culinary Workers Union Local 226, thousands of members showed up before and after their shifts, some still in uniform, to picket at eight different properties on the Strip. The Culinary Union is urging the public, customers, elected officials and convention planners to not cross the pickets and to “stand in solidarity with workers by not eating, meeting or staying in a casino resort during an active picket line.”