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The Stratosphere resort is appealing a March court order that forces the hotel-casino to correct alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act by retrofitting 532 of its 2,444 rooms with 32-inch interior bathroom doorways within 20 weeks.

Nevada's struggling state budget could lose $800,000 in gaming industry taxes for each week Las Vegas hotel workers remain on strike, a Culinary Union official said Tuesday.

Chief negotiators for labor and management disagreed Tuesday over the prospects for a quick settlement in ongoing talks that could avert the first citywide gaming strike in 18 years.

International Culinary Union President John Wilhelm said today that none of the four largest Strip gaming operators have put an offer on the table that will guarantee free health care insurance for his members.

If workers strike Las Vegas hotels, the gaming industry could see a 10 percent drop in revenue, causing additional post-Sept. 11 budget shortfalls for the state, Culinary Union leaders warned Monday.

The two words that perhaps best described longtime Las Vegas Club owner and President Mel Exber were gambler and giver.

International Culinary Union President John Wilhelm said Sunday that the union expects to sign a new contract with `one or more’ of the four major gaming companies on the Strip well before the June 1 strike deadline.

Union organizers are hoping to draw at least 15,000 members to a scheduled Thursday vote that could authorize Las Vegas' first citywide casino strike since 1984.

A dealer at the Las Vegas Strip's Tropicana hotel-casino filed a petition Wednesday with the National Labor Relations Board to decertify an estimated 145 table game dealers represented by the Transport Workers Union.

In an effort to speed up negotiations to beat a June 1 strike deadline, Mandalay Resort Group and MGM Mirage are joining forces to present a united response to the Culinary Union's contract proposal.

A sex company has no constitutional right to place news racks for its advertisements on the privately owned sidewalks in front of casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, a federal judge ruled.

As casino workers prepare to vote to authorize their negotiating committees to call a strike, some of the union's members remember the 1984 strike that lasted 67 days and prompted bombings, assaults, arrests, and severe economic repercussions for Southern Nevada.

News Brief: Culinary Local 226 officials demanded the reinstatement of three Circus Circus workers suspended after a Friday melee in the property's employee dining room.

The American labor movement is prepared to back a Culinary Union strike with all of its muscle if contract negotiations with the casino industry break down at the end of the month, the nation's No. 2 labor leader said Wednesday.

Entertainer Robert Goulet is in negotiations to perform at `City By the Bay,’ the $1 billion San Francisco-themed resort proposed by Phil Ruffin.

Here is a comprehensive and credible comparison of Las Vegas reel slot returns.

Culinary Union leaders said today that at least six of its members were injured during a melee with security officers last week at a Circus Circus employee cafeteria.

Las Vegas Culinary Union leaders are spreading word of their heated contract negotiations with the casino industry to Wall Street investors and vendors who deal with casinos.

Warehouse employees at the Bellagio hotel-casino voted for representation by the Teamsters Union in a Friday vote.

A Las Vegas developer has proposed a $50 million Hilton-branded hotel and casino on Sahara Avenue, just off the Las Vegas Strip.