Tuesday, April 12, 2016 | 5:50 p.m.
Housekeeper Celia Vargas was marching on the picket line in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas when a motorcade ferrying the billionaire rumbled past.
Against the backdrop of palm trees and shouts of “no contract, no peace,” the 57-year-old maid craned to catch a glimpse of her employer — a property tycoon who has built his presidential campaign on appealing to blue-collar workers but now risks being cast in Sin City as a union-buster.
“I don’t understand,” said Vargas, one of more than 500 hotel workers who in December voted 238 to 209 to join the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165. “It’s weird why he doesn’t want to negotiate a contract with us.”
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