Rally: Workers' Labor Day (2025)
Culinary Union hosted a powerful Workers’ Labor Day Rally on Monday, September 1, 2025, outside of The Sphere, where 700 workers are in negotiations for a first-time union contract. Hundreds of Culinary Union members were joined by union members from the Bartenders Union Local 165, Nevada AFL-CIO, Southern Nevada Building Trades, Teamsters 631, and other unions to continue defending the right to organize and celebrate the Culinary Union’s 90th anniversary of fighting and winning for working families in Nevada. Workers in Nevada are united to win union contracts, strong worker protections, fair wages, guaranteed benefits, and a better future for the next generation of workers.
Workers’ Labor Day Rally
Culinary Union hosted a powerful Workers’ Labor Day Rally on Monday, September 1, 2025, outside of The Sphere, where 700 workers are in negotiations for a first-time union contract. Hundreds of Culinary Union members were joined by union members from the Bartenders Union Local 165, Nevada AFL-CIO, Southern Nevada Building Trades, Teamsters 631, and other unions to continue defending the right to organize and celebrate the Culinary Union’s 90th anniversary of fighting and winning for working families in Nevada. This Labor Day, workers in Nevada are united to win union contracts, strong worker protections, fair wages, guaranteed benefits, and a better future for the next generation of workers.
RALLY: It's better in a union!
On Thursday, August 21st, leaders from the Nevada State AFL-CIO, Executive Secretary-Treasurer Susie Martinez and President Liz Sorenson, joined Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge, Culinary Union members, and community members to rally at Culinary Union HQ as the AFL-CIO’s “It’s Better in a Union: Fighting for Freedom, Fairness & Security” nationwide bus tour stop in Las Vegas, Nevada. The bus tour stop highlighted the fight to protect hospitality workers and Nevada’s economy. As Donald Trump’s policies continue to slow tourism and hurt the Las Vegas economy, workers are standing together to demand real solutions that strengthen working families. The “It's Better in a Union: Fighting for Freedom, Fairness & Security” Rally is part of a nationwide AFL-CIO campaign to give workers a voice and build power leading up to Labor Day, September 1st, 2025. While some politicians sow chaos in the lives of working people and big corporations continue to profit off our backs, unions and working people are fighting back to win for our families.
RECAP: Press conference re: The Big Ugly Bill
On Friday, July 25, 2025, Culinary Union Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge and tipped hospitality workers joined Congressional representatives Dina Titus and Steven Horsford to talk about how working families will be impacted by the Big Ugly Bill. Culinary Union supports tax relief for working-class tip earners. Unfortunately in the Big Ugly Bill, tax relief for workers is temporary, while windfall tax cuts for billionaires and the rich are permanent. Millions of Americans will also lose access to health care and essential economic programs. Culinary Union will closely monitor as the U.S. Treasury develops regulations for the new tax policy to make sure it benefits working-class taxpayers as promised.
Thank you, Culinary Union HQ!
Culinary Union has been fighting and winning for 90 years! We’ve outgrown the old HQ because we’ve grown together for nearly a century. 100% of casinos on LV Strip are UNION! We’ve won Venetian, Sphere, Fontainebleau LV, the Virgin LV strike, and we continue fighting for you everyday. We’ve fought and won. Now, we have a new home to keep fighting and winning for workers at non-union restaurants, Station Casinos, and the arenas! We’ve been smart and careful with our money. Our new HQ is a financially sound investment that makes us stronger, ready to take on big corporations, and win strikes. It will be a source of power and financial security for our union family - for now and the next 90 years. We deserve this. Welcome home! Our new Culinary Union HQ campus is ADA accessible, has lots of meeting rooms, covered parking for members, and is also home to: *The Citizenship Project *Pension Fund *Goodwrx *Culinary Health Fund (coming soon!) *...and more!
Thank you, Culinary Union HQ!
Culinary Union has been fighting and winning for 90 years! We’ve outgrown the old HQ because we’ve grown together for nearly a century. 100% of casinos on LV Strip are UNION! We’ve won Venetian, Sphere, Fontainebleau LV, the Virgin LV strike, and we continue fighting for you everyday. We’ve fought and won. Now, we have a new home to keep fighting and winning for workers at non-union restaurants, Station Casinos, and the arenas! We’ve been smart and careful with our money. Our new HQ is a financially sound investment that makes us stronger, ready to take on big corporations, and win strikes. It will be a source of power and financial security for our union family - for now and the next 90 years. We deserve this. Welcome home! Our new Culinary Union HQ campus is ADA accessible, has lots of meeting rooms, covered parking for members, and is also home to: *The Citizenship Project *Pension Fund *Goodwrx *Culinary Health Fund (coming soon!) *...and more!
Culinary Union 2025 recent highlights
NEW Video: Culinary Union recent highlights *The Fight and Win Vote *Culinary Health Center - Craig grand opening *We Believe in Us rally *Contract victories: Cosmopolitan LV, HMS Host, & Resorts World LV *New Culinary Union HQ The Culinary Union has been fighting & winning a better life for hundreds of thousands of hospitality workers since 1935.
Welcome home!
The new Culinary Union HQ on Spring Mountain, located at: 📍 5241 Spring Mountain Road Las Vegas, Nevada 89146 (Cross streets: Spring Mountain Rd & S Lindell Rd) 🗓️ Monday - Friday 🕰️ 8am - 4pm 🚗 Park in the covered MEMBER PARKING spots! Need a union referral or to file a grievance? Visit the Culinary Union! We are continuing to build power for the organizing fights ahead and will keep fighting to deliver a better future for generations of working families. Our new campus is a wise investment that makes us stronger, ready to take on big corporations, and win strikes. It will be a source of power and financial security for our union family. We’re going to keep fighting for workers in this city, from the casinos in Downtown to the non-union restaurants on The Strip. Here’s to the next generation of organizing, fighting, and winning.
Culinary Union moves headquarters to a new campus on Spring Mountain
Culinary Union moves headquarters to a new campus on Spring Mountain, celebrates 90 years of fighting and winning for working families in Nevada The new Culinary Union campus, located at 5241 Spring Mountain Road Las Vegas, Nevada 89146, opens on Thursday, June 5th, 2025 Las Vegas, NV – The Culinary Union, the largest union and a powerful force for working families in Nevada, is moving its headquarters to a new campus located at 5241 Spring Mountain Road Las Vegas, Nevada 89146. After nearly eight decades on Commerce Street in Downtown Las Vegas, the Culinary Union is building on its 90-year legacy of fighting and winning for workers with a move that strengthens its foundation for the future. Culinary Union’s building on Commerce Street will close permanently on Wednesday, June 4th and re-open a new expanded Culinary Union campus on Thursday, June 5th, 2025. “We are laying down a strong foundation for the next century of worker power in Nevada by expanding our headquarters at a new campus,” said Ted Pappageorge, Secretary-Treasurer of the Culinary Union. “We are continuing to build power for the organizing fights ahead and will keep fighting to deliver a better future for generations of working families in Nevada. This move is about more than a new building. It’s about honoring the legacy of those who came before us and protecting the future of our union for the members still to come. The new Culinary Union campus is a wise investment that makes us stronger, ready to take on big corporations, and win strikes. It will be a source of power and financial security for our union family - for now and the next 90 years. We’re going to keep fighting for workers in this city, from the casinos in Downtown Las Vegas to the non-union restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip. We celebrate the memories and power we’ve built, and we’re ready to create even more. Here’s to the next generation of organizing, fighting, and winning.” The new Culinary Union campus on Spring Mountain Road is ADA accessible, offers more meeting spaces, hundreds of covered parking spaces for Culinary Union members, expanded parking availability for hundreds more, and the campus is strategically located between the Las Vegas Strip and Downtown Las Vegas. The new headquarters, which will also centralize Culinary Union affiliates such as the Citizenship Project and others, will serve as the Culinary Union base as organizing continues at non-union restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip, Station Casinos properties, and entertainment venue and arenas in and around the tourism corridor. “For over six decades, our home on Commerce Street has been more than just a building, it has been the heartbeat of the Culinary Union,” said Diana Valles, President of the Culinary Union. “It’s where generations of workers have gathered to organize and fight for their rights. It’s where we fortified the line in historic strikes, where we were united during times of crisis, and where we celebrated victories that changed tens of thousands of lives forever. The Culinary Union HQ has always been a dynamic place of worker power in Las Vegas and one where guest room attendants, cocktail and food servers, porters, bellmen, cooks, bartenders, laundry, and kitchen workers stood strong through strikes, contract fights, and negotiations. As we move to a new campus, we honor the past and remain committed to keep fighting and winning for 60,000 Culinary Union members and their families.” https://www.culinaryunion226.org/news/press/culinary-union-moves-headquarters-to-a-new-campus-on-spring-mountain
VICTORY: CosmopolitanLV, HMS Host, & Resorts World LV have new union contracts!
Culinary Union is proud to share that tentative agreements on new contracts were reached last week with Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, HMS Host at the LAS Airport, and Resorts World Las Vegas. Over 4,600 Culinary Union members won strong new contracts that protect fair wage increases, job security, and the best health care benefits. As the Culinary Union celebrates 90 years of fighting for working families this year, we reflect on the sacrifices and strength that built Nevada’s middle class. Nothing in our nine decades came easily. Victories are the result of militant worker organizing, sacrifice, and determination. We are proud to celebrate a 100% unionized Las Vegas Strip and Culinary Union’s legacy of making hospitality jobs in Las Vegas family-sustaining jobs. Each tentative agreement is a win for workers, their families, and the future of Las Vegas.