My work on these issues is inspired by the advocacy of labor allies like the Culinary Union. Their historic contract wins last year secured record wage increases for five years, reduced workload requirements, and strengthened job safety rules and protections on behalf of tens of thousands of guest room attendants, food servers, bellmen, and bartenders, and more. That kind of progress is why unions matter.

Unfortunately, Culinary workers have also faced false and unfair attacks during this election year that couldn’t be further from the truth.

For decades, the Culinary Union has supported efforts to lower health care costs and expand access to quality health care. They’ve stood up to the big drug companies to help lower prescription drug costs and increase transparency on drug pricing, and they’ve fought back against extreme Republican efforts to jeopardize Nevadans’ access to health care. 

Deliberately misleading negative ads from Democrats this year arguing that the Culinary Union is aligned with Donald Trump, MAGA Republicans, and the pharmaceutical industry were troubling and wrong. This kind of deceptive message undermines our collective fight for union workers.

As your Senator, I’m committed to partnering with groups like Culinary 226 – and all of Nevada labor – to lower costs and taxes for working families, and to take on the corporate special interests raking in record profits at the expense of regular people.

We must all work together for an agenda that strengthens the labor movement and helps Nevada workers get ahead. People’s families are on the line, and they can’t afford anything less.