Just a year after expressing concern about one of the companies that wants to bring a casino to Richmond, a hospitality workers union has thrown its weight behind the proposal, knocking doors using nearly $1 million from the pro-casino political action committee.
Unite Here represents 8,000 workers in Virginia, including hospitality workers at Colonial Williamsburg and food service workers at The College of William & Mary, Old Dominion and Virginia Commonwealth universities, a union spokesperson said.
In 2022, Unite Here supported a successful effort to keep Richmonders from voting on the casino a second time. State budget language prevented it from being on the ballot, in order to give Petersburg a chance at studying a casino there.
