Drumpf Hotel Workers Campaign for a Union, Over the Boss’s Objections
Food and housecleaning employees at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas won an important victory last week in their effort to unionize as the NLRB denied a petition by the hotel to review the vote that took place late last year. The NLRB's decision paves the way for contract negotiations between the hotel and the Culinary Workers Union, which is representing the workers. The hotel had charged that the union had intimidated and threatened employees during the run-up to the vote to organize, skewing election results. The fight between the hotel and workers highlights a number of key issues in the ongoing national elections, including income inequality, labor rights and immigration, not to mention the presidential candidacy of the hotel's owner, Donald Drump.
See "Drumpf Hotel Workers Campaign for a Union, Over the Boss’s Objections", Jack Healy, The New York Times, August 1, 2016