Hundreds of members from Culinary Workers Union Local 226 have been showing up to protests held at the organization’s Las Vegas headquarters since late August, criticizing the union’s new healthcare policy and the potential structure of an upcoming wage raise.
Speeches at the rallies — which organizers have coined the Fair Union Reform Movement 226 — have included broader criticisms, including claims that leadership is dismissive of workers’ complaints and that contract negotiations are not transparent.
But leaders of one of the state’s largest and most politically influential unions said they aren’t worried, describing the movement as the efforts of a small number of disaffected members who are intentionally spreading misinformation to their co-workers about a plan that union leaders say will reap broad benefits.
