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$26 -- That's the average hourly wage that employees of the Las Vegas resort hotel and convention center earned by waiting on attendees at the kick-off reception. If you're thinking that that's a number that would quickly add up, you would be right. You see the deliverers of drinks and canapes belong to the most powerful private-sector union in the country, Las Vegas' Culinary Workers Union, Local 226, which has won middle class wages for its members, effectively *breaking the cycle of poverty.* Which raises a slightly *awkward* question. Are we against all unions or just the ones to which teachers belong? Because sometimes it was awfully hard to tell the difference.