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Growing up in Las Vegas, I learned very early the lesson of unions and how they fight for worker’s rights. Though my family didn’t work on the glittering Strip or Downtown, my friends had parents who did. When I was in my teens, the Culinary Union struck for a week or so and I helped make sandwiches for the strikers with my friend, whose mother was in that union. The Culinary Union in Vegas is huge and has been called the scrappiest union in town. They had to be. First, they fought against the Mob — which cost them a president in 1977 — and then, the corporations. It would be safe to say that the Culinary Union is the backbone of casino workers in Las Vegas.