Union provides fair compensation to Las Vegas Tropicana hotel workers
When the Tropicana Casino closes for good on April 2, two days before its 67th anniversary, many of its employees will likely walk away with a year or more of salary.
Under the union contract signed in December, severance packages at Las Vegas Strip resorts include $2,000 per year of employment with no cap on benefits. That means hundreds of employees could receive up to $60,000 each.
“A large portion of this workforce has been working there for decades,” Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, during a Zoom news conference earlier this week express.
Hotels are bought and sold in Las Vegas on a regular basis," Pappageorge added."Las Vegas welcomes new projects, but workers cannot be thrown away like old shoes. "
The Trop's owner, Bally's Corporation, has no connection to the Caesars property (formerly known as Bally's) and decided to demolish the old Vegas property in order to build a new baseball stadium on the Strip for the Oakland Athletics Give way.
HUGE FUND
Nevada lawmakers last year approved $380 million in public funds to help build the $1.5 billion ballpark.
Bally's also plans to build a new casino resort next to the ballpark, and longtime Tropicana employees could choose to accept lower severance packages in exchange for being higher on the ballpark's employment candidate list.
Papagiorgi said the union's contract with Tropicana applies to the new casino resort, but not the stadium. However, the union reached an agreement with the Athletics that could allow stadium staff to unionize and negotiate a union contract.
"We want everyone involved to have a path forward so that the Las Vegas Athletics can continue this transformation along with the Vegas Golden Knights and Las Vegas Raiders while also enabling Las Vegas to Vegas also became the 'Entertainment Capital of the World.'" "The Capital of the World," Papachi said last year.
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