Vegas Casinos Confident They Can Avert First Strike in 34 Years

Las Vegas casino owners expressed confidence they can reach a deal with union employees, who are threatening the first strike there since 1984. Members of Unite Here’s culinary and bartenders unions are seeking new agreements on wages and issues such as workplace safety, subcontracting and new technology, according to a statement. “A strike is a last resort,” Geoconda Argüello-Kline, secretary-treasurer of the union, said in the statement.