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Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) greets members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226.

Why longtime labor ally Dina Titus quietly helped kill efforts to unionize her office, ex-staff say

Her opposition within the privacy of her office was so stringent — holding a “retaliat[ory]” staff meeting where she promised to impose stricter rules on office operations all while members’ requests went unmet — that staff members abandoned their unionization efforts entirely by the end of the year.

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