Weaver claims Bernie's non-union workers were sporting union buttons "in solidarity"

with the Culinary Union workers whose buildings they entered and whom they were trying to recruit.

Leaders of the Culinary Union -- which till now had firmly decided to endorse NO ONE -- "strongly condemn anyone falsifying their affiliation with the Culinary Union in order to gain access to properties and we will cooperate with casinos and hotels so that this matter is fully resolved."

What the campaign doesn't acknowledge is that while Union employees would be free to wear Bernie buttons (if individual members were supporters), non-union Bernie workers are not free to wear union buttons. Doing so falsely identifies them as union members.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/28/politics/bernie-sanders-union-nevada-culinary-union/index.html

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Nevada's powerful Culinary Union on Thursday accused Bernie Sanders' campaign staffers of posing as union workers in an attempt to gain access to their members, a charge the Sanders campaign denies.

Union representatives said Thursday that multiple members of their union have reported Sanders' campaign staffers of "attempting and gaining access to employee dining rooms at Las Vegas Strip properties."


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Weaver confirmed that the Sanders staffers were wearing the culinary union button "in solidarity with people but they were also wearing Bernie paraphernalia."

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"The Culinary Union button that hundreds of thousands of union members have proudly worn to work every day represents 80 years of struggle and fighting for justice," Kline added. "We strongly condemn anyone falsifying their affiliation with the Culinary Union in order to gain access to properties and we will cooperate with casinos and hotels so that this matter is fully resolved."