"Culinary Union strategically selects academic partnerships to ensure that the stories, data, and lived experiences of hospitality workers and union members are represented in scientific literature.
As the largest organization of union members, working women, immigrant workers, and Latino/a workers in Nevada, the Culinary Union is a trusted messenger in the community. This trusted organizational collaboration, and our use of a Spanish-language survey, fulfills several methodological recommendations to reach understudied ethnic minority workers (Rosemberg, Boutain, et al., 2021).
This also contributed to a broader understanding of hospitality workers’ experiences and underscores the enduring commitment of the Culinary Union to advocate for the visibility and representation of working-class and immigrant populations in academic research."
Palomares, P., Barger, S. D., Sydeman, S. J., & Khan, B. (2025). Major Depression and Hazardous Alcohol Use in a Spanish Language Survey of Leisure and Hospitality Industry Workers. Substance Use & Misuse, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2025.2576645