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Protesting Union Leaders call Vegas Strip tourists 'fat', 'losers' and 'retards'
Local advocacy group Alliance to Protect Nevada Jobs (APNJ) released Thursday the latest clip of Culinary Union leaders shouting at people as they entered the Cosmopolitan hotel-casino. The group said the insults in the video, which they labeled as happening on Oct. 12, were harsher. Protesters, who were captured on video calling tourists on the Las Vegas Strip "losers" and "jerks", were seen in new clips insulting people about their weight and even addressing some with a slur used for people with disabilities.In a number of moments on the video, a protester on a megaphone insults tourists for their weight. "You beached whale!" shouted one protester. "Man with the belly, you need exercise." The video then gets to a point where the same protest leader says, "You losers. You retards." The Alliance to Protect Nevada Jobs said the video was recorded a week after local news media reported of protesters insulting people on the Strip on Oct. 5. The APNJ also cited an interview with the union's secretary-treasurer, Ed Geoconda Arguello-Kline, who said the slurs will not end and that there was no wrongdoing with the group's tactics. Regarding the Oct. 5 video, Arguello-Kline previously said, "The recent civil disobediences, rallies, and pickets are exercises of workers' First Amendment rights and part of the struggle for the Las Vegas Dream." The Culinary Union Local 226 have been in the midst of contract negotiations with the Cosmopolitan's owner, Deutsche Bank. The group said the negotiations have been ongoing for more than two years. FOX5 has made contact with the city's tourism bureau, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. It only offered the following statement: "This is between the Culinary Union and the property." Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-23 |
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