Planet Hollywood Las Vegas News - Page 22

Westgate Resorts, the Florida-based time share developer that was rebuffed by the Clark County Commission last year in its efforts to develop a project next to MGM Grand, has found a new home on five acres near the Strip.

The Culinary Local 226 is currently in subcommittee negotiations with the Aladdin, working to hammer out the union's first deal with one of the three remaining large nonunion hotels on the Strip.

Representatives of the Aladdin and Culinary Local 226 will begin negotiating a contract today that will cover about half of the Strip resort's total employees.

Despite a previously contentious relationship with the current and previous owners of the Aladdin, Culinary Union and company leaders have expressed optimism about their ability to hammer out a deal.

The ownership of the Aladdin agreed Friday to allow more than half of its work force to be represented by Culinary Local 226 after a significant portion of the Strip resort's employees signed union authorization cards seeking representation by the state's largest labor organization.

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Workers of the Aladdin hotel and casino had New York strip steak for breakfast this morning in the employee dining room. It was Robert Earl's way of saying thank you for persevering through 35 months of operating in bankruptcy.

The bankrupt Aladdin will be converted into the first Planet Hollywood Resort Casino under a licensing plan that won unanimous approval Thursday from the Nevada Gaming Commission.

The sale of the $1.4 billion Aladdin hotel-casino is back on track since Nevada investigators were given access to audit documents dealing with some of the buyers' investments.

The Aladdin hotel-casino, nearing the end of a marathon run in bankruptcy, reported a profit of $3 million in July, according to a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

The likely new owner of the Aladdin, whose gaming licenses are up for final approval before state regulators next week, is trying to send reassuring messages to rank-and-file employees of the Strip hotel-casino that their jobs are safe.

The management group that is working to buy the Aladdin hotel-casino out of bankruptcy has sent termination letters to about 20 managers as part of the group's plan to remake the property into a Planet Hollywood resort.

A group that intends to turn the bankrupt Aladdin into the first Planet Hollywood hotel-casino won preliminary license approval Wednesday from the Nevada Gaming Control Board.

One of the many unresolved questions regarding a partnership's bid to take control of the Aladdin hotel-casino in a few weeks involves the Planet Hollywood restaurant up the street.

With the expected takeover of the Aladdin by the Planet Hollywood ownership group less than a month away, an estimated 1,500 union protesters rallied Wednesday against the property's failure to recognize the union's organizing claims.

Aladdin President Bill Timmins ordered security guards to escort pop diva Linda Ronstadt off the property following a concert Saturday night during which she expressed support for controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.

A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered the Aladdin to pay one worker back pay and full benefits after finding he had been fired because of his support of Culinary Union Local 226 but has upheld the termination of another worker.

The Aladdin hotel-casino had another profitable month in April, according to a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Las Vegas.

The leader of the acquisition company that plans to take possession of the Aladdin hotel-casino later this year says he's confident the deal will close as planned.

The Aladdin reported a $4.1 million profit in February, reversing the $402,122 loss reported in January and the $4.1 million deficit recorded in December.