Union launches boycott of Trump businesses over his refusal to make a deal with his own workers

Workers at the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas voted to unionize last December, but management has been waging a fierce battle against them, retaliating against workers who exercised their legal rights, trying to get the union vote thrown out, and now, refusing to negotiate a contract with the union. That’s pushed the Culinary Workers Union, which represents the Trump workers, to call for a boycott of Trump's properties, including hotels, restaurants, and golf courses:

The boycott will be supported by the AFL-CIO, a federation of 56 unions that represent some 12 million workers around the country, according to Bethany Khan, a Culinary Workers Union spokeswoman. She said it will involve properties that Trump “owns, has invested in, or has partnered with.”

“Other unions can respect [the] boycott and not deliver goods or pass the picket line,” Khan told HuffPost in an email.

Boycotts are never a strategy of first resort—they take serious effort and planning, and these are people’s livelihoods we’re talking about. But the union feels that in this case it’s merited. 

Interesting, isn’t it, how the candidate who keeps talking about how great he is at making deals won’t even (have his people) sit down at the table to bargain with these workers? It says something about the contempt Trump has for actual working people, all his faux populism notwithstanding.

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