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Las Vegas union protest, Police has made atleast 98 arrests on Wednesday outside the Cosmopolitan casino. The protest was the first time union members deployed civil disobedience outside a unionized casino in more than two decades. Throngs of workers blocked traffic on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday in a demonstration against the Cosmopolitan casino that ended with the arrest of nearly 100 protesters. Tourists watched from an overpass across Las Vegas Boulevard as police led workers wearing red union shirts one-by-one into a white police bus. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers arrested 98 protestors during a civil disobedience demonstration by Culinary Union workers outside the Cosmopolitan Hotel-Casino, Wednesday, March 20, 2013, in Las Vegas. Police arrested 98 protesters, according to Metro Police Capt. Todd Fasulo. The workers chanted, "If we don't get no contract, you don't get no peace," as they waited to be taken away. Las V