LAS VEGAS -- Hundreds of hotel workers at a casino near the Las Vegas Strip went on strike just before dawn Friday after a long and highly publicized fight for a new contract.

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In its first open-ended strike in 22 years, Nevada's largest union called on hundreds of workers at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas to walk off the job Friday morning as negations failed.