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Taco Trucks Erect Wall of Protest Outside LV Trump Hotel

Taco trucks have built a wall around the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas to protest his labor stance.

Members of Culinary Union 226 are building a wall of taco trucks outside of Trump International Hotel ahead of the third presidential debate on Wednesday. At least five taco trucks will sit outside the resort next to Fashion Show mall and across the street from Wynn Las Vegas. All plan to dole out free tacos as an estimated 400 people rally.

"We’re protesting Donald Trump’s hotel here in Vegas, where a majority of workers voted to unionize, and shamefully Trump has failed to sit down at the table with them," Democrat Ruben Kihuen, who is running to represent the 4th Congressional

CNN says the union represents more than 50,000 workers in Nevada.

The Trump hotel is one of the very few on the Las Vegas Strip that does not have union-negotiated contracts for its workers.

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    We have a taco truck in Hilo, and it's always busy with customers whenever I see it. Our country's racial and ethnic diversity is truly one of our great strengths which uniquely defines us amongst the nations of the world. What a shame it is that Republicans deliberately choose to instead wield it as a cudgel in repeated attempts to divide us as a people.