Hotel Workers Go on Strike at Horseshoe Club
Hotel workers struck Binion’s Horseshoe Club on Saturday, with hundreds of angry pickets chanting slogans and taunting tourists who entered the hotel and casino.
“Come on out, losers,” one picket yelled at tourists entering the casino. “Shame on you, you slimy scabs. We don’t need you here.”
About 300 pickets fanned out at entrances to the hotel-casino, which covers a square block in the heart of the city’s downtown Glitter Gulch. The casino is the first to be struck since union contracts expired June 1.
About 1,000 kitchen workers, bartenders, porters and other workers were expected to join in the strike at the Horseshoe, which has long been one of the desert resort city’s most popular downtown hotel-casinos.
The strike is the first by the 28,000-member Culinary Union since 1984, when its citywide walkout paralyzed many major Las Vegas resorts and cost millions of dollars in lost revenues.
The Horseshoe is one of 14 resorts that have not reached new pacts with the union, but 20 resorts, including most major casinos along the Strip a couple of miles from downtown, agreed several months ago to new five-year pacts.
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