Culinary vows to strike with Las Vegas Strip contracts still in talks

Fair wages, benefits and a safe working environment are a few of the issues on the negotiating table for Alicia Watson, a food server at the Golden Nugget and one of several Culinary Union members in contract talks with more than a dozen independent Las Vegas resorts with strike deadlines approaching as early as Friday. Watson emphasized that the relationship between union members and their employers is mutual — the company needs her just as much as she needs it, and both parties have to sit down, hear each other...