The Culinary Workers Union Local 226, which represents 60,000 hotel and restaurant workers in Nevada, was skeptical of Trump’s proposal and Cruz’s bill, because they didn’t address the minimum wage, but has endorsed Harris’ plan and the TIPS Act. “There are two sides to the same coin,” said Ted Pappageorge, the union’s secretary-treasurer, referring to no tax on tips and going after the subminimum wage. “We need to do both to really help the working class and low-income and middle-class tip earners, too,” he said. “Tip earners are willing to pay their fair share, we just think there’s been an overreach [by the IRS].”
