Atonement author Ian McEwan has told aspiring young authors not to be afraid of offending readers with their writing amid a rise in the use of ‘sensitivity readers’ to comb through books to remove sensitive material. McEwan, 75, said writers should be able to express themselves freely without fear of reprisal – after classics by the likes of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming were given the ‘sensitivity’ treatment earlier this year.

Some 95% of union members voted in September to authorize a citywide strike. Tourism is the city’s lifeblood and Las Vegas is gearing up for major events including a Formula 1 race expected to bring more than 100,000 tourists to the city in November. The unions are demanding higher wages, stronger protections against new technology that may threaten jobs, lower housekeeping quotas and improved safety. Pappageorge said that negotiations were “very disappointing” and the companies did not make substantive wage proposals.

Oct 9 (Reuters) – Thousands of Las Vegas workers will picket MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment casinos on Thursday for the first time in nearly two decades, the unions said, as they contemplate a possible strike. The Culinary Workers and Bartenders Unions seek a new five-year contract with improved wages and benefits as casino operators post record profits. In case you have just about any issues about in which and also tips on how to make use of online casino in new york, you can call us on our site. In prior negotiations, a strike threat was enough to spur a deal, but these talks have been slow, union representatives said on Monday.

(Reporting by Doyinsola Oladipo in New York and Shivansh Tiwary in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel and Cynthia Osterman) He estimated wage increases could cost Caesars $40 million to $60 million a year and double that for MGM based on their employee count. MGM has said that every 1% increase in wages would add about $10 million to labor costs, according to Truist analyst Barry Jonas. Unions in the auto, rail, healthcare and other industries have kept companies off balance in recent months with labor actions.

The unions are among the most powerful in the United States, representing 53,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas.