Over the past 23 years, Sheldon Adelson has built the world's largest casino company — bigger than the next 10 competitors combined.
He's done it without having a single of his 40,000 workers in Bethlehem, Las Vegas and Asia join a labor union.
Now, a band of security guards making $13 an hour may be on the verge of ending the world's 14th richest person's winning streak.
The National Labor Relations Board has ordered Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem to begin bargaining with its 130 security guards as a labor union. Pending appeal to a federal court, Local 777 would become the first union in the Sands' $35 billion gaming empire. Full story
