(15 Nov 2024)
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Las Vegas – 15 November 2024
1. Strikers in line
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Monjaraz, union member:
“Like right now we’re looking into some hard times. So, you know, so we have a backup, you know, money coming in. The union is helping us, you know, with that, too. So I’m lucky because I do live with my mom, so that helps me a lot. But I know that there’s other people that don’t have that support, you know.”
3. Picketers near Virgin hotel sign
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Monjaraz, union member:
“It is taking a toll financially, you know, especially with groceries, with gas, with mortgage, you know, insurance, everything being so high. But, you know, you have to suffer a little bit to win. Sometimes, you know, you don’t get things handed to you right away so."
5. Strike signs
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Diana Monjaraz, union member:
“We’re doing the same thing as the main, you know, the strip. Like. So why are they just saying that our job is not enough? What we do is not enough. Right. So that we do hope to come into an agreement at least halfway. you know”
7. Virgin Hotels sign
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Renick, union member:
“I mean, I’m used to making ends meet. I was in the military before this, so that wasn’t the greatest pain. So now that I have just one job and now I’m going to be sacrificing the little amount that I was already making and just just monitoring everything a little bit closer. I’m not ready to get two jobs yet, but two jobs definitely seeming like it’s going to be needed.”
9. Line of picketers
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Renick, union member:
“Yeah, I live by myself so I’m very reliant on me and how much I make and it’s just me solo living with two cats right now. So just trying to get everyone fed.”
11. Shadow of marchers
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Renick, union member:
“Well, I mean, I hope so. It’s been everyone else sign and we’re the only ones who haven’t. You know, this place makes money. This place has concerts and shows. I mean, it’s Las Vegas. Stuff’s happening all the time. I think they should just rip off the Band-Aid and give the people what they deserve."
13. Picketers
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee McNamara, union member:
“I took on a second job for about eight months, which I had recently quit but stockpiled some money to to prepare and get myself ready for this.”
15. Picketers with a banner
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee McNamara, union member:
“A strike is is hurtful to everybody. But it was a last resort for us. We didn’t we didn’t have anything else we could do. The company wasn’t coming our way and they weren’t seeing it our way, and they haven’t really budged much. And I mean, we’ve been doing the negotiations for a year and they really haven’t budged all that much from the original standpoint of zero. I mean, they threw a couple nickels at us, but that was about it.”
17. Line of picketers
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Lee McNamara, union member:
“Yes, I’m pretty much the sole income from my family of six.” (Reporter “And that’s why you did the second job” )
McNamara: “That’s why I did the second job. And I quit the second job so I could so I could be here for year so I could put all my strength and all my energy into this to fight and win the best contract.”
19. signs
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of hotel workers at a casino near the Las Vegas Strip went on strike just before dawn Friday after a long and highly publicized fight for a new contract.
Culinary Union members last went on strike in 2002 for 10
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