A big strike averted before the big game
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This weekend, negotiators between several Las Vegas casinos and the Culinary Workers Union reached tentative agreements with just hours to go before a strike deadline. This comes as Vegas kicks off Super Bowl week and is slated to welcome more than 300,000 visitors. Then, feds will start collecting information from crypto mining companies about their electricity use, and we’ll look at Canada’s pathway to family reunification for Sudanese refugees.
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| 0:00.0 | When unions negotiate a tentative deal up against the Super Bowl. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm David Brancaccio. |
| 0:06.0 | As Super Bowl Week kicks off today in Las Vegas, there's news unions and management |
| 0:11.0 | at several casinos have averted a strike over the weekend the hotels |
| 0:15.2 | reach tentative agreements with the culinary workers union as the city prepares to welcome |
| 0:19.6 | more than 300,000 visitors. |
| 0:21.8 | Marketplace's Nova Safo reports. |
| 0:24.0 | Negotiators for casinos in Las Vegas's downtown area and the union representing |
| 0:28.2 | hospitality workers reached tentative deals over the weekend with just hours to go before a strike deadline. |
| 0:34.5 | The culinary workers union had been negotiating for about 10 months. |
| 0:38.3 | heading into the weekend there were still no agreements in place with three casinos and the |
| 0:42.2 | union was preparing for a strike starting today |
| 0:45.0 | at 5 a.m. Pacific time. |
| 0:47.0 | But on Sunday morning the Union announced a deal with the Golden Nugget |
| 0:50.0 | and overnight with the Grand Hotel and casino. The union also agreed to keep |
| 0:54.2 | talking with the Virgin Hotel and not strike for now. Major Casino operators on the |
| 0:59.3 | Las Vegas Strip, which is separate from downtown, struck new labor deals late last year, which the union |
| 1:04.6 | said included a 32% pay increase. |
| 1:07.4 | No word on the latest agreements with the downtown casinos, but the union had been aiming |
| 1:11.1 | for similar deals. I'm Nova Safo for marketplace. |
| 1:14.3 | Cryptocuracies like Bitcoin depend on a lot of high-powered computers doing |
| 1:19.3 | high-level math, some crypto systems more than others. Those computers grinding away to mint new |
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