Fritz, Pom, 1950-

One of four children born to a farming family in Udon Thani, Thailand, Pom Fritz is a retired guest room attendant (Flamingo, Desert Inn, and Mirage) and member of Culinary Workers Union Local 226, serving the Union as committee member, shop steward, Trustee, and member of the Executive Board. Pom came to the U.S. with her second husband, an American, in 1972. After stops at Air Force bases near Sacramento and in North Carolina, she moved to Riverside, California, where her younger sister then lived. Finding no work there, she commuted to Santa Ana to work for $3 per hour. Moving to Las Vegas in 1981, she eventually found work at the Flamingo and joined the Culinary union in 1985. She talks of her work with the Union, benefits of union membership, the duties of a committee member and shop steward, the Frontier strike, and working at the Desert Inn. Mother of 5 (3 sons still in Thailand), also raised 3 grandchildren.