Restaurant workers demand union recognition

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Thursday, April 17, 1997 | 10:55 a.m.

"I can look out across the street and down the Strip and see workers in casino restaurants making double what I am, for the same job," Ron Isomura, a cook at ARK Restaurants Corporation, said in a news release Thursday.

New York-based ARK runs food and beverage operations inside New York-New York. The megaresort subcontracts all of its food and much of its beverage operations.

ARK workers are paid 20 percent to 53 percent less than unionized workers in the Strip food and beverage industry, the news release from Culinary Workers Union Local 226 said. Many workers make no more than minimum wage.

The workers are seeking the Culinary Union and Bartenders Union Local 165 as their collective bargaining agent.