THE busiest pharmacy in Nevada sits in an unremarkable strip mall in the shadows of Las Vegas's glitzy casinos. Pharmacists accept prescriptions, dispense medicine and take no cash. Across town is the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, which trains people to be chefs, bakers, somme-liers and other food-service workers. There too, most students pay nothing for their classes. The roughly 57,000 members of the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 (CWU)-the state's biggest union, representing employees at most of the casinos on the Vegas Strip and downtown-receive retraining and prescription drugs as benefits, along with comprehensive health care, pensions and supplemental insurance.
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