It’s also what sent Culinary Workers Local 226, Unite Here’s largest local, into the streets. It fielded more than 400 organizers in Las Vegas and Reno, including their suburbs, culminating in a massive get out the vote drive on Election Day itself.
Since Aug. 1, the union’s canvassers—all appropriately socially distanced and masked due to the coronavirus pandemic—have knocked on more than 450,000 doors,
“Donald Trump is a threat to the livelihoods of workers and our families,” said Geoconda Argüello-Kline, the union’s Executive Secretary-Treasurer. “We are fighting to take back our country and we will deliver Nevada for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” along with congressional and local pro-worker candidates. One, Rep. Steven Horsford (D), is a former Local 226 training center director.
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