Some 35,000 workers at MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts are expected to walk out at 5 a.m. Nov. 10 unless a contract is reached.

“I can tell you that we’ve given the (companies) plenty of time, but at this point, it looks like there’s gonna need to be a strike to get these companies to move forward with a fair contract,” Pappageorge said in a Zoom call Thursday with the media.

The strike, should it occur, would be the largest by hospitality workers in U.S. history, Pappageorge said. It would cover 18 properties with pickets lined up at 45 strike locations, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.