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Caesars reaches tentative agreement with Culinary Union

Culinary Local 226 and Caesars Entertainment Corp. have reached a tentative five-year labor agreement. It is expected to avert a strike that could have crippled Southern Nevada’s resort corridor. The settlement will affect about a quarter of the 50,000 resort workers whose contracts expired at midnight. Details of the settlement have yet to be announced. The next big hurdle is settling a contract with MGM Resorts International, the largest employer of union workers on the Strip.

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