Hotels, union opt for rally

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Hotels, union opt for rally

By Cristina Rodriguez / Staff Writer



Members of the Culinary Union and the city's biggest hotel operators are cooperating on a planned pro-immigration rally Monday evening on Fremont Street.

Calling the 6 p.m. downtown event a celebration rather than a protest, gaming and culinary union officials are encouraging immigrants to skip a national walkout scheduled for May Day.

The unions and hotels instead want workers to sign petitions at work on Monday, and for off-duty workers to attend an hour-long program of speakers and music on Fremont Street.

The event is scheduled at a time when most maids and food-service workers have completed their work days.

Nationally, opponents of immigration reform legislation are calling on like-minded people to take off work on Monday, May Day, an international holiday recognizing organized labor. The goal is to show how necessary immigrant workers are to the economy.

"We want folks to go to work and sign the petition," D. Taylor, secretary-treasurer of the almost-60,000-member Culinary Union, said Wednesday at a news conference. "On May 2, 3 or 10, we still have to get a bill through Congress. Whether someone comes to work or not on May 1 is not going to (matter)."



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