Ted Pappageorge, the secretary-treasurer of Culinary 226, told French news agency AFP this week that the union will work diligently to make sure Nevada helps keep Biden in the White House.
By election day, we’ll have 500 union members — men and women that are normally cleaning rooms in hotels, cooking food, or serving drinks — out full-time, knocking on doors, registering folks to vote, taking folks to the polls,” Pappageorge explained of the union’s canvassing efforts. “There’s no other way to win [than getting out the vote].”
Union dues will once again be used to pay canvassers to take time off from their jobs to go door-to-door.
“They sign up for three to six months during an election year. They walk the neighborhoods every day, 10 hours a day, in 110 degrees. Workers talking to workers. That’s how we move the working class vote in Nevada.”
Pappageorge says the majority of his union members want to make sure a woman has a right to choose an abortion. They also seek law and order on the border but with “compassion” and a better economy.