Great news for AVN / Adult Entertainment Expo attendees, and a terrible turn of events for insufferable virtue-signaling, attention-seeking blowhards.
Casino.org reports that following “months of amateur hour organized labor theater (including fake “arrests” and a karaoke night on the picket line), the Culinary Union strike is done at Virgin Las Vegas.”
A communication sent to union members (see below) says there will be a vote at noon on Jan. 22, 2025 to ratify a new contract. Anticipate lots of victory lapping by the union. Oy.
The settlement comes just in time for the porn convention to be held at the off-Strip resort. The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo happens Jan. 22-25, 2025. Viva Las Vegas.
That’s the whole story, really.
Nobody’s sharing the details of the contract and nobody really cares all that much, except for the people who are just happy this stupidity is over.
How on Earth will they find her now?
The behavior of picketers has been reprehensible and union shenanigans contributed zero to the resolution of this “negotiation.”
This union’s leadership is the worst in America (we worked at the Writers Guild of America for nine years, so we’re familiar with real unions).
The bottom line of this labor dispute is Virgin Las Vegas doesn’t make money. You can’t get blood from a stone. The union pursued conflict rather than professionalism and productivity. The union hurt some of its biggest advocates (many members jumped ship, including shop stewards), and those relationships can’t really be fixed.
Culinary members are not well-served by its leadership, but good leaders of any kind are hard to come by at the moment.
Expect a vote approval of nearly 100% in the Culinary union’s parking lot tomorrow.
Virgin will talk about focusing on unity and all that. Unions and labor negotiations are one of the most boring parts of Las Vegas, but not if you’re a server or bartender or housekeeper.
Let’s get back to having fun and letting Virgin see if it can work a miracle and come back from the brink of bankruptcy. All this nonsense didn’t help, at all.
