La Culinaria: What Nevada’s Culinary Union Wants This Presidential Election
Special | 3m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
Nevada’s Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers, endorsed Harris.
presidential election. In Nevada, a battleground state, Latinos are 1 in 5 registered voters, making them a sought after commodity. In early August, the powerful Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno, more than half of whom are Latino, endorsed Harris.
La Culinaria: What Nevada’s Culinary Union Wants This Presidential Election
Special | 3m 20sVideo has Closed Captions
presidential election. In Nevada, a battleground state, Latinos are 1 in 5 registered voters, making them a sought after commodity. In early August, the powerful Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno, more than half of whom are Latino, endorsed Harris.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[Elizabeth] - Nevada va a tener un papel muy importante en estas elecciones.
Por eso tenemos que analizar y pensar realmente que queremos en nuestras vidas.
[Ted] - In Nevada, we've never had anything easy here.
It's blood, sweat, and tears, and we've always had to fight for anything we've ever gotten.
The Culinary Union, we're a union that represents the hotel workers here in Las Vegas and in Reno.
You know, we represent around 60,000 workers and the majority of our union are Latino workers.
These men and women have families, and we think it's kind of the foundation of this community.
[Bryan] - Workers are the backbone of the, of the hospitality industry in, in Nevada, in Las Vegas.
If it wasn't for the union, workers here won't be able to have, you know, good paying jobs, healthcare, pension, and better working conditions.
[Ted] - Well, our economy here was crushed because of Covid and you know, it was the worst healthcare crisis in all of our lifetimes, became the worst economic crisis in any of our lifetime.
[Elizabeth] - Hubo recortes durante la pandemia.
Y no todos la gente estaba trabajando, entonces yo me quedé sin casa.
Tuvimos que quedarnos en casa de mi madre, en la sala con ella.
Mis tres hijos todos amontonados.
Aún no he podido recuperarme económicamente.
(guitar music) [Ted] - For 12 months, we averaged 1,800 members per day showing up for a 40-pound bag of food.
[Elizabeth] - La Culinaria nunca nos dejó.
Ellos protegen familias, protegen trabajos.
Y yo me siento muy orgullosa de pertenecer a ellos.
Porque yo veo como la dedicación que salga comunidad.
[Ted] - Part of what's important here is who had your back when you really needed it, and our members understand that.
But this issue of the cost of groceries, the cost of gas, and the price of rent.
Folks are being squeezed regardless of whether you work in the front of the house or back of the house, tipped, non-tipped, or whatever language you speak or wherever you're from.
Everybody's gotta be able to take care of their families and pay their rent and maybe dream of owning a home one day.
And those universal things, that's what's at stake in this election year.
[Elizabeth] - Pues voy, you creo que venga Noviembre yo todavía estar muy nerviosa.
Hasta última día.
Por eso es importante que ahorita toda la gente salga va a votar.
Ya basta el racismo, basta de todo que nos divide.
[Bryan] - We have to elect leaders in power that, have our backs, the workers' backs, the community's backs.
What Kamala Harris has proposed, trying to enforce fair housing laws, it will definitely do a difference for everyone.
(guitar music)
