LAS VEGAS (PAI) August. 19, 2016 – Unite Here, whose workers at Donald Trump’s huge hotel in Las Vegas are locked in a union recognition struggle with managers hired there by the Republican presidential nominee, has taken its campaign against Donald Trump one step farther: It’s joined African-American golfers who want the sport’s professional associations to yank future tournaments from Trump’s courses.
In a statement issued August 16, Culinary Workers Union Local 226 – the union that Trump Las Vegas Hotel and Casino workers voted for and an affiliate of Unite Here – declared the Professional Golfers Association, the Ladies Professional Golfers Association and the U.S. Golfers Association should knock Trump’s courses into the labor equivalent of a sand trap.
To push them to do so, the local is endorsing a MoveOn.org petition against using those Trump courses. Golfers Opposing Bigotry, an African-American golf group, started the petition. It’s unusual for golf: In past years, golfers have stayed out of politics. But one recent news story about the petition notes that all-time golf great Jack Nicklaus backs Trump.
The petition says, “Trump’s hateful rhetoric and exclusionary policy proposals are divisive and dangerous. Despite professed disagreement with his abhorrent views and statements, two of American golf’s leading bodies have continued doing business with him, and as such, they reward him materially and give him and his views undeserved legitimacy.”
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(Disclaimer: African American Golfer’s Digest has not endorsed any of the candidates running for president of the Unites States. The above post is for news and entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as an endorsement or non-endorsement of neither candidates. Therefore we are not encouraging or discouraging anyone from participating in the above petition.)
