Biden Meets With Culinary Workers on Eve of Nevada Primary

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President Biden visited the Vdara Hotel in Las Vegas, where the culinary workers’ union agreed to a contract over the weekend.



President Biden met with members of the Culinary Workers Union in Las Vegas on Monday.Credit...Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

By Nicholas Nehamas and Maggie Astor

Nicholas Nehamas reported from Las Vegas, and Maggie Astor from New York.

Feb. 5, 2024, 3:27 p.m. ET

President Biden met on Monday with members of Nevada’s powerful culinary workers union, after the union averted a planned strike by reaching contract agreements with Las Vegas properties over the weekend.

Mr. Biden visited the Vdara Hotel, one of the properties where the union agreed to a contract for its members, and greeted workers in an employee cafeteria — shaking hands, taking photos and at one point appearing to FaceTime with someone on a worker’s phone.

“Wall Street did not build America. The middle class built America. Unions built the middle class. There would be no middle class without the unions,” he told the crowd. “So I came to say thank you. Not just to say thank you for the support that you’ve given me last time out, but to thank you for having the faith in the union.”

Mr. Biden, who is expected to win the Democratic primary election in Nevada on Tuesday with ease, has often described himself as “the most pro-union president in American history.”

FULL story: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/us/politics/biden-union-workers-nevada-primary.html

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1. I love our president as he's in solidarity with those vital workers behind the scenes