In Las Vegas, 98 arrests were made when one of the area's most powerful unions, Culinary Workers Local 226, held a protest against the Cosmopolitan Casino for delaying negotiations on a new union contract on Wednesday, March 20.

Union workers wearing red union shirts blocked traffic on the Las Vegas Strip, ending in 98 arrests.

Metro Police Captain Tod Fasulo said that police arrested 98 protesters.

The protesting workers changed, "If we don't get no contract, you don't get no peace." The union has been negotiating with Cosmopolitan Las Vegas owner Deutsche Bank about getting new contracts for two years.

The 54,000-member union picketed outside the Vegas casino earlier this year.

Union spokeswoman Yvanna Cancela said that Wednesday was the first time her union used civil disobedience to draw attention to the culinary workers' cause.

Cancela told ABC News that the crowd contained about 1,500 people.

Cancela said the contract negotiations have been held up due to issues with wage, health care and job security.

Janet Hill, a porter at the Flamingo casino said, "They need to give workers here a contract; it affects us all."

When she finished speaking to the press, her hands were bound and she was arrested.

Tourists looked on at the commotion on the Vegas strip, some annoyed at the inconvenience and some curious.

James Lewis, a visitor from Australia, took a photograph of himself holding a union sign that read, "No Justice, No Peace."

"I was surprised because I didn't know this was an issue here. I come from a place where health care is free, so this is something completely foreign," Lewis explained.

Cosmopolitan casino spokeswoman Amy Rossetti has claimed that management will continue negotiations with the union until a fair agreement is reached.

The union is negotiating with the casino's management instead of Deutsche Bank, the owners. Protesters on Wednesday voiced concerns Deutsche Bank is stalling because it intends to sell the casino and doesn't want the added burden of a union contract, according to the Associated Press.

Paulina Corona, a housekeeper at the Mirage hotel-casino, said the demonstration was important as a display of mutual support and strength.

She explained, "This is a union, and everybody is in it together. When there are problems at the Mirage, everyone goes there."

Corona, a cancer survivor, told the AP she worries that management could make workers pay for an unfair amount of their health care costs. "Every day, they try to ask for more things," she said.