Labor made great strides in 2023 with the UAW, Writers Guild, SAG, and local Culinary Union all negotiating historic deals with their industries.

Police say 58 Culinary Union members were arrested on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday night in what the union called an act of "civil disobedience."

Ruben Garcia, law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joins us to talk more about the many strikes that we're seeing all across the country.

Culinary and Bartenders Union members yelled from picket lines outside Park MGM on October 12. A chorus of car horns from Las Vegas Boulevard chimed in.

In their complaint, filed Monday, CCEA argues Nevada’s decades-old law prohibiting public employees from striking “impermissibly impinges upon the fundamental rights of speech and association of CCEA and its members, is overbroad, void for vagueness, and is not narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling state interest.”

The Clark County teachers union has to overcome 54 years of legal precedent to succeed in its recently launched legal effort to repeal a state law that prohibits strikes by public-sector employees, said Bradley Marianno, a UNLV professor of education policy.

This week, Culinary Union workers voted to authorize a strike. The bartenders union did the same. The teacher’s union contract dispute with the school district is now in the hands of an arbitrator.

Workers across the country have taken to walkouts and strikes to demand better wages and working conditions. Las Vegas hospitality workers could be the next to join.