“The union plan looks like a better plan,” emails Fronstin. “I don’t see any deductibles. The co-payments are slightly lower than in the non-union plans. PCP and specialist copays are lower in the union plan.”

The Culinary says that all employees, including those working part-time, would qualify for its health insurance plan under a union contract. They also say that a union would institute a seniority system, doing away with the favoritism of which Zamarin complains.

It’s unclear why Trump provides decent insurance in Las Vegas or what sort of plans he offers elsewhere. After all, at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, locals appear to have been consistently passed over in favor of migrant guest workers as part of a highly exploited and exploitative federal program. And according to Bloomberg, the 401(k) program he offers is horrible. One major reason for his relative beneficence in Las Vegas might be that non-union employers in heavily unionized areas are often incentivized to match union wages and benefits.

“Wages and benefits are significantly higher among non-union hotel-casino workers in cities like Las Vegas, where there is a strong union presence,” emails Jeff Waddoups, an economist at University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Lee Business School. “Two things help explain such a result.  Non-union firms put a value on remaining non-union (think the Venetian, for example), and in order to reduce the likelihood that workers will be interested in organizing a union, the firm pays something close to union scale wages. Also, the non-union sector wants to attract high-quality workers, and if they are paying too much less than union-scale, they will not be able to.”

According to the Culinary, the Trump International Hostel still pays $3.33 less per hour, including benefits, than what prevails in the Strip’s union shops.

Karla Menjivar, 37, says she has worked as a housekeeper for six months but only works part-time and on call.

“We don’t have health insurance,” she says. “We have to pay…It’s very difficult.” She says that she wants a union so that management “respects seniority” and that “they make us full-time.”

Trump has staked his bid for the presidency on the idea that his business savvy will Make America Great Again—in part based on how he treats his workers. But the Las Vegas hotel workers I spoke to don’t think that he’s doing such a great job. Zamarin says that if she could talk to Trump, she would remind him that labor is the source of a good customer experience. And of his wealth.

“I would tell him that he should take care of us and give us good health benefits” and that he needs to “hire more people so that we can do our job and serve the guests,” says Zamarin. “Because that’s how he’s making his money.”