Unions spent workers’ dues at Caesars Palace, beachfront resorts and steakhouses while arguing members couldn’t afford bills
Union dues are to pay for the union to do stuff.
The union has 52000 members, so this massive bill of $3.2m represents $60 of dues from each member.
While Fox News would like you to believe that if those silly union member had simply kept their $60 instead of working together in solidarity to fight for a better contract that they would have been better off, they all would have only ended up with an additional, let me check, $60.
The reporting here is beyond stupid, it identifies that the bills for these casinos were explicitly for event space and then goes “but casinos also offer a lot of gambling” to try to trick the reader into thinking maybe the money was spent on gambling.
Lots of organizations hold events in Las Vegas, events cost money. As long as the union members got more than $60 of value out of their new contract this is dues money well spent.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 hours ago
I’m shocked, shocked I say!