The Detroit Casino Council, made up of 3,700 workers in five unions that work at three casinos, has been on strike since Oct. Las Vegas union members were joined by striking casino workers employed at MGM Grand Detroit. The union will help represent them in court. Union officials said the arrested members would be processed by the Metropolitan Police Department and released that night.

Sometimes they say, ‘We don’t care about our employees.’ But I think they care about their employees and they’re gonna see this.” “For me, being arrested says I’m willing to do this,” Maria Espino, a casino porter at Caesars Palace, said over a DJ playing pop and dance music for the protesters. They wore yellow armbands for officers to easily identify who would sit in the street, stopping traffic - and T-shirts declaring their impending arrest for the contract. Shop stewards who help lead negotiations volunteered to sit in the street in front of the Bellagio and Paris Las Vegas, blocking traffic in both directions for about 15 minutes. The union said thousands participated in the pre-strike rally and “mass action civil disobedience” as negotiations between some of Las Vegas’ major employers - MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts - and the union over a new five-year contract were scheduled this week and next.

(Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) workers further increased the public pressure on resort employers Wednesday when about 75 Culinary Local 226 members were arrested for blocking traffic at the center of the Strip. The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 said that 75 members were prepared to be arrested for “civil disobedience” as they fight for a new contract. A culinary union member is loaded onto a transport bus after being arrested for blocking traffic along Las Vegas Boulevard during a rally of thousands of fellow hotel workers on Wednesday, Oct.

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