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The Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas
from Part VI - Unions, Civil Society, and Culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 November 2019
This chapter will examine the model of what I term “politically engaged unionism” in the Las Vegas area as a template for labor-community coalitions in the labor movement of the future. Culinary Workers Union Local 226, an affiliate of UNITE HERE, AFL-CIO (“the Culinary Union”) has focused on being a politically connected union able to obtain results with state and local policymakers, and that political and legislative success has been followed by gains at the bargaining table. In this chapter, I argue that the Culinary Union defies previous distinctions between business unionism and social movement unionism, with lessons for the future of the rest of the labor movement.
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