“Our union has a very weird sense of time,” said Taylor, who held several leadership roles with the Culinary before serving 10 years as secretary-treasurer, the local union’s top elected position. “Still, we’ve been back and forth for longer than 12 years,” said Taylor, the national president of UNITE HERE, the New York-based parent of Las Vegas’ Culinary Workers Local 226. Taylor, whose organized labor career in Las Vegas and nationally has spanned four decades, said the hostilities actually heated up in earnest during 2008. If I end up being your president you will never ever, ever have in American history someone who is more pro-labor in The White House than Joe Biden.”Ĭulinary leaders hoped the statements delivered by the current President and Vice President landed in the offices of Red Rock Resorts and could ultimately lead to ending the long standing labor dispute that has origins going back to 1993, the year Bill Clinton moved into the White House and the Strip saw the mid-December opening of MGM Grand Las Vegas.ĭ. Said former Vice President Joe Biden, “Folks, I promise you one thing. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, from standing with workers in front of Red Rock’s off-Strip Palms Casino Resort surrounded by the Culinary leadership and members, all of whom wore red t-shirts and sweatshirts emblazoned with union’s logo and slogans.Ī month after Harris was there, another presidential candidate arrived at the union hall to deliver a similar message to workers.

Ultimately, the union did not make an endorsement.īut that action did not stop candidates, including Sens. The town hall-style meeting with Harris was duplicated by all the top tier Democratic presidential candidates seeking an endorsement from Culinary ahead of the February 2020 Nevada Presidential Caucus.

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