Virgin Hotels Las Vegas invited Culinary Union leadership to arbitrate an agreement that could end the Culinary Union strike against the hotel-casino after more than six weeks of striking. However, responding to the message, the union's Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge, called the act a meaningless publicity stunt.

"There was a letter, but it's meaningless because if you are only willing to sit down and talk about a third of what the Strat workers requested, that's not really bargaining in good faith," said Pappageorge.