unions take on role of training for new jobs.
Programs link with industries and bring higher pay, benefits and security They're anonymous, yet everywhere in large hotels. You know them by their carts in the corridor with its flesh supply of linens and little shampoos and soaps that clog the bathroom medicine cabinets of frequent travelers. Maids -- officially known as GRAs -- guest room attendants, the entry-level workers in the hospitality industry. Who'd want it? Nina McKnight and Suzanne Tastad, for two. That's why they were at the Culinary Union Training Center for a two-week training course here earlier this year, along with Paul Shaw who was training to be a "houseperson." McKnight, a single mother of two, had come to Las Vegas two weeks earlier from California because she'd amusement heard there were jobs in the casino industry. She saw the job training advertised on a building near where she lived, and went to the Culinary Union to see what it was about. With the training program behind...