LV
union plans to demonstrate
against Harrah's
October 13
In Las
Vegas, The Culinary Union is
planning to sent hundreds of
workers on Thursday to the
corporate headquarters of
Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
as part of a display of
unity with striking union
workers in Atlantic City.
Union
leaders say that
demonstrators will host a
civil disobedience if they
need to, in order to get
Harrah's executives to sign
an agreement guaranteeing
that the company will not
replace workers in Atlantic
City during an ongoing
strike.
Spokespeople for Harrah's
say the
company is not interested in
signing anything but a
contract with the union.
The
Culinary Union also is
planning a series of
meetings with Atlantic City
strikers at Las Vegas
properties owned by Harrah's
and Caesars Entertainment
Inc. as well as Aztar
Corp.'s Tropicana and Colony
Capital's Las Vegas Hilton.
The
Culinary Union placed full
page ads in the Las Vegas
Sun and Las Vegas
Review-Journal Tuesday
stating that the future
Harrah's-Caesars union would
cause a prevailing dominant
company with the
capabilities of eventually
declining benefits that
gaming workers have worked
hard to achieve in Las Vegas
over the past.
