But, the culinary union, which represents 60,000 hotel workers across Nevada, argues with a lesser requirement to clean comes a lesser need for hotels to keep guestroom attendants on staff.
Ted Pappageorge, secretary-treasurer for the union, also believes the argument that this new bill will save water is false.
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“Companies call them green programs, but the reality is, it was about reducing labor and cutting costs,” Pappageorge said outside the new Culinary Health Center Tuesday morning. “This is a bad look for Vegas.”
While those who testified Monday deny the purpose of this bill to be for cost-cutting measures, the union additionally said workers will be left less safe when cleaning alone if SB 441 passes.
“When daily room cleaning goes away, that means you have to do what they call ‘chasing checkouts,’ in that, you have to go up and down to floors to get your quota to finish your workload, and you’re in places you don’t know, guests you don’t know, and you’re not in your station,” Pappageorge said. “The idea that these working women, many of them, most of them women of color, are to be alone in this struggle and left alone by the legislature, we’re not going to accept that.”