The state’s largest union — the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 — supports the No Tax on Tips provision. Secretary-Treasurer Ted Pappageorge said the effort has been decades in the making.

“We’ve been in the ring on taxes on tips for over 30 years,” Pappageorge said. “It’s not etched in stone.”

He credited the late Nevada Senator Harry Reid and Congressman Steven Horsford for fighting on behalf of tipped workers and supporting tax relief efforts.

But he also criticized the bill. “The tip relief is welcome, but the real problem is that it’s temporary,” Pappageorge said. “When you take a look at the super-rich tax windfall that happened out of this big, horrible bill — that’s permanent. But the few tax cuts that are in there for workers like this are temporary.”