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Las Vegas Strip Dept: The future of the American labour movement may lie just off the Las Vegas Strip, inside a squat building huddled in the shadow of the Stratosphere casino, according to Winnipeg Free Press. More than 90 per cent of Culinary's 60,000 predominantly immigrant workers opt to be dues-paying members, even though Nevada law says they cannot be forced to pay unions for their services and chief instructor Larry Baumann, left, answers questions for students in a professional cook class at the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in Las Vegas. The academy is funded through a trust created by the culinary and bartenders unions as well as management from 26 properties on the Las Vegas Strip. Nevada has become an increasingly Democratic state. And the Culinary Union's track record gives a dispirited labor movement some hope even as it continues to hemorrhage workers and reels from the signature of a right-to-work law in Michigan this week. AP Photo/Julie Jacobson That's the home of the Culinary Workers Local 226, a fast-growing union of hotel and casino employees that has thrived despite being in a right-to-work state and a region devastated by the real estate crash. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.