(4 Aug 2025)
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Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
1. Las Vegas road sign
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Las Vegas – 16 July 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Pappageorge, culinary union:
“We’re very proud to say that the Strip is 100% union, but we have some real battles out there. Stations Casinos, for 15 years, has been fighting tooth and nail.”
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Las Vegas – 12 October 2023
3 Culinary union members marching
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Las Vegas – 16 July 2025
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Pappageorge, culinary union:
“We’re very proud of our 90th anniversary this year, and there’s a lot of history we want to celebrate."
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Las Vegas – 12 October 2023
5. Culinary union members marching
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Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Pappageorge, culinary union:
“We had 18,000 members in 1990. Now we have about 60,000 and it was a huge achievement to finally organize the Venetian after almost 25 years. And we’re very proud of that. We’ve negotiated our very best contract there.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
7. Exterior of Venetian
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Las Vegas – 18 July 2025
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Susana Pacheco, housekeeper at the Venetian:
“It was a battle being in the negotiations. It was like, it was a battle, but it was worth it because we have all these benefits. So it did, it is worth everything.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
9. Vegas Strip
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Las Vegas – 18 July 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Susana Pacheco, housekeeper at the Venetian:
“Now with the union, we have a voice where we’re more protective, we feel more. I have more relief because we’re stable.”
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Las Vegas – 21 July 2025
11. Vegas Strip from distance
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Las Vegas – 18 July 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Susana Pacheco, housekeeper at the Venetian:
“Before we where just, just a number like nobody listened to us."
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Las Vegas – 10 July 2024
13. Tourists take a photo
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Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Pappageorge, culinary union:
“The other thing is this idea of job security in this new world of massive worldwide corporations.”
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Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
15. USA flag and buildings
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Las Vegas – 16 July 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Pappageorge, culinary union:
“Whether or not they bring in investors or whether they decide to sell or to bring in other partners or restructure that the workers are protected."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
17. Foot bridge over Vegas Strip
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Las Vegas – 16 July 2025
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Pappageorge, culinary union:
“And that means that if any new owners come in, you stay. The workers stay, your benefits stay, your wages stay, your job security stays, and sometimes owners come and go. I think that’s really the biggest thing. Look, the other thing we’ve done is really attack this issue of discrimination and harassment on the job. Vegas is an adult-oriented playground.”
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Las Vegas – 22 July 2025
19. Vegas Strip seen from a foot bridge
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Las Vegas – 18 July 2025
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Enrique Aranda, pastry chef at Eataly at Park MGM:
“Now I get up, take a shower, smile, go to work, and I’m 100% not worried about they’re gonna fire me, not worried about anything like that, no, not at all.”
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Las Vegas – 13 October, 2023
21. Union members marching
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Las Vegas – 16 July 2025
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