Video footage has surfaced showing a picketing Culinary Union member calling tourists “losers” and “jerks” for going into the Cosmopolitan. The Alliance to Protect Nevada Jobs captured the video at a Culinary protest Oct. 5 and today posted it on YouTube.
A picketing Culinary Union will have some opposition outside the Cosmopolitan this weekend. The Alliance to Protect Nevada Jobs (APNJ) plans to counter the Culinary’s picket outside the Strip resort with a demonstration of its own. Their aim runs opposite the feisty labor union.
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A new club is slated to open at the Cosmopolitan in late December. Marketed as a rebirth of the social club, Rose.Rabbit.Lie will be a complex mix of restaurant, bar, club and entertainment venue, resort officials say.
After four major protests outside the Cosmopolitan since January, the Culinary Union is turning up the pressure. The Culinary now plans to picket outside the Strip resort every weekend until they secure solid contracts for the 2,000 workers.
Tech information and life skills tips flew fast and furious at the first South By Southwest tech conference at the Cosmopolitan today. Called SXSW V2V, the conference was expected to draw about 1,500 attendees.
Next week’s convention of techies at the Cosmopolitan will be a relatively cozy affair compared to juggernaut South By Southwest, the mothership of music/tech/movie conventions based in Austin, Texas, that is bringing their brand here.
The Cosmopolitan lost $25.2 million in the second quarter, according to an earnings report released Friday afternoon. Casino revenue suffered most, generating $30.6 million compared with the $38.6 million pulled in the second quarter last year.
The rowdy sea of red and blue flooded a short stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard. About 3,000 workers from the Culinary Union and California School Employees Association rallied together for the 2,000 hospitality workers at Cosmopolitan.
This is one expensive shoe box. A condo — all of 599 square feet — on the 56th floor of the Cosmopolitan’s east tower recently sold for $675,000, or $1,126.88 per square foot.
Dining website OpenTable.com has named three Las Vegas hotspots among the best restaurant bars in the country as part of the site’s annual Diner’s Choice Awards.
A sea of red-shirted picketers collectively looked up from Las Vegas Boulevard and shook their fingers at the Cosmopolitan. "Shame on you!" they yelled. "Shame on you!"
