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| Protesting Union Leaders call Vegas Strip tourists 'fat', 'losers' and 'retards' |
| 2013-10-23 |
| 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 |
| #17 I'd be willing to bet the Las Vegas tourist demographic looks a lot like the local union hall. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-10-23 20:44 |
| #16 "it is full of fat tourists, losers, and retards" So is New York City. Idiot. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-10-23 20:06 |
| #15 ..it is full of fat tourists, losers, and retards .. Arrogance much? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-23 18:38 |
| #14 And what does it say about a city whose existence depends upon fat tourists, losers, and retards? Not much different than an entire political party which promises the wealth created by others to the very same. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-10-23 17:29 |
| #13 Thank you, |
| Posted by: Dopey Sinatra 2013-10-23 16:08 |
| #12 Clearly none of you have actually been to the Strip...it is full of fat tourists, losers, and retards ...it's just that union leaders shouldn't be speaking the truth, they should be denying it like the Tea Party types... |
| Posted by: Jerkface Killa 2013-10-23 16:03 |
| #11 If it wasn't for the 'Fat lazy Tourists' - would there even be a Vegas? Seriously it's in the middle of a desert. Seems once again the union forgets the first rule of parasites: Don't kill the host! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-10-23 15:22 |
| #10 If annoying the tourists is an unspoken rule in Vegas, then it appears these union clowns are quite intentionally "going there." |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-10-23 14:44 |
| #9 Annoying the touristas is a definite no-no in Vegasland. People end up out in the desert. |
| Posted by: mojo 2013-10-23 14:05 |
| #8 Once again, unions define "classy" |
| Posted by: Iblis 2013-10-23 12:49 |
| #7 Some things must not be spoken aloud. Even if true. This applies equally to Obama &/or to all fat loosers. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-10-23 10:20 |
| #6 But a lot of Vegas tourists ARE fat, losers, and jerks (though probably not many are truly retards.) I sense another case of 'projection' - I bet these union leaders are fat, losers and jerks too - and retards. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-10-23 07:43 |
| #5 ..yep, the cause of Harry Reid, the best senator union money can buy (of course through the 'reelection' campaign support). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-10-23 07:19 |
| #4 I thought Los Vegas was our cause town? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-10-23 04:42 |
| #3 .....dog bites feeding hand. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-10-23 04:19 |
| #2 ...and yet, no seems to be paying attention to him. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2013-10-23 01:08 |
| #1 I would not eat any food those dangerous fools prepared. I would suspect poison. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2013-10-23 00:14 |