HSMAI International Association of Venue Managers PCMA American Hotel & Lodging Association AAHOA APIEventProfs Travel Unity ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership Destinations International Meeting Professionals International The LGBT Meeting Professionals Association National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals National Association for Catering and Events (NACE) Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority - LVCVAĭid you know a date has been set for the culinary union strike in Las Vegas? If you have upcoming events in Vegas in the next few weeks, you should be aware of what’s happening. Image: a huge crowd of diverse Las Vegas hospitality workers, many in their work uniforms, some holding signs like 'One Job Should Be Enough' (because many of them work more than one to make ends meet), gathered.

They are the people who, often at great physical and psychological costs, make our meetings and events happen, ensure clean guest rooms, pour the drinks at events. I support UNITE HERE and the sacrifices of those workers who have voted overwhelmingly to strike. It is too often forgotten that it is because of unions that many in the US have more fair working conditions and pay. Many of my #HospitalityIndustry colleagues, whether they plan meetings and events or work in venues or provide services for venues and #conferences, oppose #unions. “Even though we’re seeing stronger support for unions, (with) the highest popularity of union favorability in polls since at least the 1960s, translating the worker desire for representation into actual representation is really hard under our current system,” Alexander Colvin, dean of Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, told The Associated Press earlier this month.

have been falling for decades due to changes in the economy, employer opposition, growing political partisanship and legal challenges. Gridlock persists in Hollywood between actors and major studios, while hospitality workers in Las Vegas, Detroit, Southern California and beyond are fighting for better pay and protections.īut despite historic walkouts and record contract deals seen this year, there’s a lot stacked against labor organizers. The United Auto Workers’ tentative agreements with Detroit’s Big Three automakers could end the union’s six-week strike. labor unions are once again flexing their muscles in the national spotlight.

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