Trump Hotel workers use candidate's anti-Latino rhetoric to galvanize union

[Omaha Steve]

I just posted this in GD. Eugene had already posted it in OS Labor.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/28/donald-trump-hotel-workers-las-vegas-latino-union

Daniel Hernandez in Las Vegas
Monday 28 September 2015 08.01 EDT

Donald Trump has called it a “great honor” that workers at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas had thus far declined to unionize. “They love me,” he said last month on the campaign trail.

But workers were signaling otherwise. That very day, Latino staffers protesting at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas were using his harsh stance on immigrants to galvanize a majority-Latino workforce to join the Culinary Union, one of the most powerful entities in Nevada politics.

“If Mr Trump wants to make America great again, he should start here,” workers shouted.

In protests, Spanish language radio ads, press releases, and Facebook videos, organizers are highlighting Trump Hotel employees’ own immigrant stories, and channeling the Nevada Latino worker community’s outrage at the Republican presidential frontrunner into political and union engagement by a population that makes up the bulk of Trump’s Las Vegas hotel employees – and a powerful swing state voting bloc.

FULL story at link.

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1. K&R.....

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2. That's awesome