Source: Jim Saksa, ROLL CALL, 9/17/20

“I’m incredibly optimistic,” said Donald “D.” Taylor, unexpectedly. As president of Unite Here International, Taylor watched the coronavirus outbreak shutter the casinos and hotels where most of his members worked, putting 98 percent of them out of work. It will take two or three years before the industries rebound. With 80 percent of his 307,000 members still out of work and not paying dues, Taylor had to lay off organizers and force early retirements — cuts copied by the union’s local chapters.

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