STRIKEmas party @virginhotelslasvegas
🪧 Virgin Las Vegas ON STRIKE! On the 30th day of Culinary Union’s longest strike in over two decades, Culinary Union hosted a STRIKEmas party with live music, delicious food, and plenty of holiday cheer for strikers on the Virgin Las Vegas picket line. Culinary Union members continue fighting for a new 5-year union contract for 700 hospitality workers. The STRIKEmas festivities takes place as the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) pledge to stand with strikers: “We stand in full support of the Culinary Union workers on strike at Virgin Las Vegas. As a union of professional football players, solidarity with the labor movement is central to our values. Over the years, we’ve received invaluable support from UNITE HERE and other unions, and we proudly extend our support when called upon. We stand with the Culinary Union in their fight for a fair contract. Until the strike is resolved, we commit to not sleep, eat, or drink at Virgin Las Vegas and encourage our fans and fellow athletes to do the same.” -- For the first time in over 22 years, the Culinary Union has launched its longest-lasting strike in more than two decades, taking workers at Virgin Las Vegas out in an open-ended strike that began November 15th at 5:00am as workers continue fighting for a new 5-year union contract for 700 hospitality workers. Since the strike began, hundreds of striking workers and union members have maintained 24/7 picket lines at every entrance and exit along Harmon Avenue and Paradise Road around the casino property. Culinary Union is urging tourists and community allies to *not* cross the strike line at the Virgin Las Vegas and encourages customers to cancel their reservation, check out of the property, choose a union accommodation on FairHotel.org and eat at union restaurants on UnionEats.org
March to Virgin Las Vegas
On December 7, 2024, the 23rd day of Culinary Union’s longest strike in over two decades, hundreds of Culinary Union strikers and their families marched on Virgin Las Vegas and tell VirginLV’s billionaire Canadian owners: Take your 3 dimes back to Canada! For the first time in over 22 years, the Culinary Union has launched its longest-lasting strike in more than two decades, taking workers at Virgin Las Vegas out in an open-ended strike that began November 15th at 5:00am as workers continue fighting for a new 5-year union contract for 700 hospitality workers. Since the strike began, hundreds of striking workers and union members have maintained 24/7 picket lines at every entrance and exit along Harmon Avenue and Paradise Road around the casino property. Culinary Union families are making it clear to those big Canadian billionaires trying to walk all over workers in Nevada – take your 3 dimes and go back to Canada if you can’t meet the Las Vegas union standards. Culinary Union is urging tourists and community allies to *not* cross the strike line at the Virgin Las Vegas and encourages customers to cancel their reservation, check out of the property, choose a union accommodation on FairHotel.org and eat at union restaurants on UnionEats.org Virgin Las Vegas workers are on strike for a fair union contract! The company is hiring scabs to replace union workers. A scab is a strikebreaker who crosses the picket line to work at Virgin Las Vegas. Culinary Union members: Our union constitution has language that protects Virgin Las Vegas workers who are on strike by allowing scabs to be expelled from the union! DON’T BE A SCAB BY CROSSING THE VIRGIN LAS VEGAS PICKET LINE! Stand with workers on strike, fighting to win a better future.
“A Strike Song (VirginLV)" - A parody of Shaboozey’s song “A Bar Song (Tipsy)"
Culinary Union releases “A Strike Song (VirginLV),” a parody of Shaboozey’s record-breaking song “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” calls on artist to stand with strikers by canceling December 11th Virgin Hotels Las Vegas concert during NFR - Listen to new song: “A Strike Song (VirginLV)” on Instagram, Soundcloud, or Youtube Las Vegas, NV – Nearly four weeks into the strike at Virgin Las Vegas, Culinary Union has released “A Strike Song (VirginLV),” a parody song of Shaboozey’s record-breaking hit, “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and calls on the artist to cancel his Virgin Hotels Las Vegas concert on Wednesday, December 11th during the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. Inspired by the record-breaking song that has been the longest-running No.1 hit of the decade, a Virgin Las Vegas striker and Culinary Union member recorded a parody version which has become a rallying cry for the hundreds of hospitality workers who are on strike to win a new union contract. “Shaboozey’s music has inspired millions, but performing at Virgin Las Vegas would undermine the workers fighting for their livelihoods,” said Ted Pappageorge, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union. “We’re asking him to stand with working families on strike by canceling his December 11th show at the casino. As ‘A Strike Song (VirginLV)’ reminds us: ‘Don’t you know? When we fight, we win! Ain’t no power like the power of the union.’ Shaboozey’s support could send a powerful message to Virgin Las Vegas and its billionaire Canadian owners that workers deserve respect and a new union contract. Crossing a picket line is wrong and puts anyone who does on the side of a greedy corporation forcing workers to strike during the holidays in their fight for a better future. Culinary Union urges Shaboozey to show solidarity with the workers who keep Las Vegas running and to stand on the right side of history.” “I’m on strike because workers at Virgin Las Vegas deserve better – we’ve worked hard for this company and it’s time they respect our value,” said Carly Greathouse, a hostess at the Commons Kitchen on strike at the Virgin Las Vegas who recorded “A Strike Song (VirginLV). “It’s not fair that workers on the Las Vegas Strip are getting higher wages while we’re expected to work and work, but not have any real wage increases. Virgin Las Vegas should invest in us – their reliable, loyal, and hardworking employees – instead of hiring scabs. Like the song says, ‘Solidarity, respect. We ain’t scabbin’ for a check…We’ll be out here ‘til we win.’ We’re strong, we’re powerful, and my message to customers and Shaboozey is to support us by staying out of Virgin Las Vegas while we are on strike. My co-workers and I will stay out here until we win because we believe in solidarity, respect, and winning a union contract so that one job is enough.” LYRICS (Excerpt): “A Strike Song (VirginLV)” - His baby want a Birkin, so the concert must go on Bad luck to cross a picket line, we're out here all night long Gotta feed our families, but Boozey's greed is strong Las Vegas is a union town, fair contract’s what we want “One, here comes the two to the three to the four Tell ’em ‘Bring your coworkers,’ there’s always room for more Party on the picket line, that’s our dance floor Strike’s on, for sure! Everybody walk out, street’s callin’ Don’t you know? When we fight, we win! Ain’t no power like the power of the union Hotel workers on strike at the Virgin … Solidarity, respect We ain’t scabbin’ for a check Tell Virgin we ain't forget (oh yeah) A.M. to the P.M. We’ll be out here ‘til we win Tell your family, tell your friends (oh yeah)” For the first time in over 22 years, the Culinary Union is leading its longest-lasting strike in more than two decades, taking workers at Virgin Las Vegas out in an open-ended strike that began November 15th at 5:00am as workers continue fighting for a new 5-year union contract for 700 hospitality workers. Since the strike began, hundreds of striking workers and union members have maintained 24/7 picket lines at every entrance and exit along Harmon Avenue and Paradise Road around the casino property. https://www.culinaryunion226.org/news/press/culinary-union-hotel-workers-on-strike-at-the-virgin-shaboozeys-a-bar-song-tipsy-calls-on-artist-to-stand-with-strikers-by-canceling-concert-nfr
Civil Disobedience @virginhotelslasvegas
Civil Disobedience @ Virgin Las Vegas - One week into the Culinary Union’s first open-ended strike in 22 years, 57 Culinary Union members and striking workers from Virgin Las Vegas were arrested in an act of peaceful civil disobedience. The labor demonstration drew hundreds of striking workers and union members, who have maintained 24/7 picket lines at every entrance and exit along Harmon Avenue and Paradise Road in front of the property since hundreds of workers went on strike on November 15, 2024, in the fight to win a new 5-year union contract for over 700 hospitality workers at Virgin Las Vegas. Culinary Union is urging tourists and community allies to *not* cross the strike line at the Virgin Las Vegas and encourages customers to cancel their reservation, check out of the property, choose a union accommodation on FairHotel.org and eat at union restaurants on UnionEats.org
ON STRIKE @ VirginLV: Delegation from the picket line
🎉 Victory on the Strike Line! ICYMI: Striking workers at Virgin Las Vegas stood strong and united - and they WON! When the company tried to force strikers to cross crossing the picket line to pick up their paychecks, Culinary Union said NOT ON OUR WATCH. Led by Culinary Union President Diana Valles, a delegation of Virgin Las Vegas strikers marched from the sidewalk to the front door of the property, demanding dignity, respect, and their hard-earned paychecks. This kind of anti-worker tactic has no place in Las Vegas. Virgin Las Vegas tried to make strikers criss the picket line, but strikers proved that solidarity wins every time.
ON STRIKE @virginhotelslasvegas
For the first time in over 22 years, the Culinary Union has taken workers out in an open-ended strike at Virgin Las Vegas that began Friday, November 15th at 5:00am as 700 hospitality workers continue pushing to win a new 5-year union contract. 24/7 picket lines around the property are in place daily during the strike. Culinary Union is urging tourists and community allies to *not* cross the strike line at the Virgin Las Vegas and encourages customers to cancel their reservation, check out of the property, choose a union accommodation, and eat at union restaurants.
5/5 - There are enemies out there that want to destroy our union (ENGLISH & SPANISH)
We won the BEST contracts EVER because we stood up to big casino corporations…and we beat them by fighting together. But there are enemies out there that want to destroy our union. The Virgin Hotel says ZERO raises for three years, and that is their last and final offer. Every employer in Las Vegas will try to take those big raises back if we allow that to happen to the Virgin workers. For 15 years, Stations Casinos has fired, intimidated, threatened workers, and denied them their right to have a union. Donald Trump is with them, not us. Trump thinks it’s okay to fire strikers. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump and his people want to ban card check neutrality - that’s the way we’ve organized every hotel on the Las Vegas strip, including the new Venetian contract. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) And now Trump’s Republican buddies in Congress want to tax our health care. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Just like when we voted to go on strike last year, it’s time for us to vote for Kamala Harris for President. Today, Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day. If you are in line by 7pm, stay in line. You will be able to vote. // Ganamos los MEJORES contratos de la HISTORIA porque nos enfrentamos a las grandes corporaciones de casinos... y las vencimos luchando juntos. Pero hay enemigos que quieren destruir nuestro sindicato. El Virgin Hotel dice CERO aumentos durante tres años, y esa es su última y definitiva oferta. Todos los empleadores de Las Vegas intentarán retirar esos grandes aumentos si permitimos que eso les suceda a los trabajadores de Virgin. Durante 15 años, Stations Casinos ha despedido, intimidado, amenazado a los trabajadores y les ha negado su derecho a tener un sindicato. Donald Trump está con ellos, no con nosotros. Trump cree que está bien despedir a los huelguistas. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump y su gente quieren prohibir la neutralidad en la verificación de tarjetas - así es como hemos organizado todos los hoteles del Strip de Las Vegas, incluido el nuevo contrato de Venetian. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) Y ahora los amigos republicanos de Trump en el Congreso quieren gravar nuestra atención médica. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Al igual que cuando votamos por ir a la huelga el año pasado, es hora de que votemos por Kamala Harris para presidenta. Hoy, martes 5 de noviembre, es el Día de las Elecciones. Si está en la fila a las 7pm, permanezca en la fila. Podrá votar.
5/5 - There are enemies out there that want to destroy our union (ENGLISH)
We won the BEST contracts EVER because we stood up to big casino corporations…and we beat them by fighting together. But there are enemies out there that want to destroy our union. The Virgin Hotel says ZERO raises for three years, and that is their last and final offer. Every employer in Las Vegas will try to take those big raises back if we allow that to happen to the Virgin workers. For 15 years, Stations Casinos has fired, intimidated, threatened workers, and denied them their right to have a union. Donald Trump is with them, not us. Trump thinks it’s okay to fire strikers. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump and his people want to ban card check neutrality - that’s the way we’ve organized every hotel on the Las Vegas strip, including the new Venetian contract. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) And now Trump’s Republican buddies in Congress want to tax our health care. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Just like when we voted to go on strike last year, it’s time for us to vote for Kamala Harris for President. Today, Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day. If you are in line by 7pm, stay in line. You will be able to vote. // Ganamos los MEJORES contratos de la HISTORIA porque nos enfrentamos a las grandes corporaciones de casinos... y las vencimos luchando juntos. Pero hay enemigos que quieren destruir nuestro sindicato. El Virgin Hotel dice CERO aumentos durante tres años, y esa es su última y definitiva oferta. Todos los empleadores de Las Vegas intentarán retirar esos grandes aumentos si permitimos que eso les suceda a los trabajadores de Virgin. Durante 15 años, Stations Casinos ha despedido, intimidado, amenazado a los trabajadores y les ha negado su derecho a tener un sindicato. Donald Trump está con ellos, no con nosotros. Trump cree que está bien despedir a los huelguistas. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump y su gente quieren prohibir la neutralidad en la verificación de tarjetas - así es como hemos organizado todos los hoteles del Strip de Las Vegas, incluido el nuevo contrato de Venetian. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) Y ahora los amigos republicanos de Trump en el Congreso quieren gravar nuestra atención médica. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Al igual que cuando votamos por ir a la huelga el año pasado, es hora de que votemos por Kamala Harris para presidenta. Hoy, martes 5 de noviembre, es el Día de las Elecciones. Si está en la fila a las 7pm, permanezca en la fila. Podrá votar.
5/5 - There are enemies out there that want to destroy our union (VERTICAL - ENGLISH & SPANISH)
We won the BEST contracts EVER because we stood up to big casino corporations…and we beat them by fighting together. But there are enemies out there that want to destroy our union. The Virgin Hotel says ZERO raises for three years, and that is their last and final offer. Every employer in Las Vegas will try to take those big raises back if we allow that to happen to the Virgin workers. For 15 years, Stations Casinos has fired, intimidated, threatened workers, and denied them their right to have a union. Donald Trump is with them, not us. Trump thinks it’s okay to fire strikers. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump and his people want to ban card check neutrality - that’s the way we’ve organized every hotel on the Las Vegas strip, including the new Venetian contract. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) And now Trump’s Republican buddies in Congress want to tax our health care. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Just like when we voted to go on strike last year, it’s time for us to vote for Kamala Harris for President. Today, Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day. If you are in line by 7pm, stay in line. You will be able to vote. // Ganamos los MEJORES contratos de la HISTORIA porque nos enfrentamos a las grandes corporaciones de casinos... y las vencimos luchando juntos. Pero hay enemigos que quieren destruir nuestro sindicato. El Virgin Hotel dice CERO aumentos durante tres años, y esa es su última y definitiva oferta. Todos los empleadores de Las Vegas intentarán retirar esos grandes aumentos si permitimos que eso les suceda a los trabajadores de Virgin. Durante 15 años, Stations Casinos ha despedido, intimidado, amenazado a los trabajadores y les ha negado su derecho a tener un sindicato. Donald Trump está con ellos, no con nosotros. Trump cree que está bien despedir a los huelguistas. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump y su gente quieren prohibir la neutralidad en la verificación de tarjetas - así es como hemos organizado todos los hoteles del Strip de Las Vegas, incluido el nuevo contrato de Venetian. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) Y ahora los amigos republicanos de Trump en el Congreso quieren gravar nuestra atención médica. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Al igual que cuando votamos por ir a la huelga el año pasado, es hora de que votemos por Kamala Harris para presidenta. Hoy, martes 5 de noviembre, es el Día de las Elecciones. Si está en la fila a las 7pm, permanezca en la fila. Podrá votar.
5/5 - Pero hay enemigos que quieren destruir nuestro sindicato (SPANISH)
We won the BEST contracts EVER because we stood up to big casino corporations…and we beat them by fighting together. But there are enemies out there that want to destroy our union. The Virgin Hotel says ZERO raises for three years, and that is their last and final offer. Every employer in Las Vegas will try to take those big raises back if we allow that to happen to the Virgin workers. For 15 years, Stations Casinos has fired, intimidated, threatened workers, and denied them their right to have a union. Donald Trump is with them, not us. Trump thinks it’s okay to fire strikers. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump and his people want to ban card check neutrality - that’s the way we’ve organized every hotel on the Las Vegas strip, including the new Venetian contract. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) And now Trump’s Republican buddies in Congress want to tax our health care. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Just like when we voted to go on strike last year, it’s time for us to vote for Kamala Harris for President. Today, Tuesday, November 5th is Election Day. If you are in line by 7pm, stay in line. You will be able to vote. // Ganamos los MEJORES contratos de la HISTORIA porque nos enfrentamos a las grandes corporaciones de casinos... y las vencimos luchando juntos. Pero hay enemigos que quieren destruir nuestro sindicato. El Virgin Hotel dice CERO aumentos durante tres años, y esa es su última y definitiva oferta. Todos los empleadores de Las Vegas intentarán retirar esos grandes aumentos si permitimos que eso les suceda a los trabajadores de Virgin. Durante 15 años, Stations Casinos ha despedido, intimidado, amenazado a los trabajadores y les ha negado su derecho a tener un sindicato. Donald Trump está con ellos, no con nosotros. Trump cree que está bien despedir a los huelguistas. (LINK / https://www.instagram.com/p/C-olhYxiA5X/) Trump y su gente quieren prohibir la neutralidad en la verificación de tarjetas - así es como hemos organizado todos los hoteles del Strip de Las Vegas, incluido el nuevo contrato de Venetian. (LINK / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRuZguf3I4) Y ahora los amigos republicanos de Trump en el Congreso quieren gravar nuestra atención médica. (LINK / https://www.benefitspro.com/2024/10/18/taxing-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-a-cap-is-part-of-gop-budget-proposal-for-2025/?slreturn=20241027170756) Al igual que cuando votamos por ir a la huelga el año pasado, es hora de que votemos por Kamala Harris para presidenta. Hoy, martes 5 de noviembre, es el Día de las Elecciones. Si está en la fila a las 7pm, permanezca en la fila. Podrá votar.