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FROM DOGE TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE?
PBS: NLRB whistleblower says key files stolen, nuked and possibly passed to Russians
PBS NewsHour video & transcript / 4-16-2025NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: Top House Democrat says malfeasance
NPR 4-15-2025
Twin terrorists run tax-paid American gulag
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-16-2025CWA 9413 PRESIDENT: Don't miss once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make sure every home and business has access to true high-speed internet service.
LEGISLATIVE ALARM
Sen. Dina Neal needs our support of Senate Bill 391. ACT NOW to help Nevada tenants by capping predatory Wall Street speculation
On her first day back on the job!
On 2025-04-09 05:19, Sen. Dina Neal wrote:
Hello. I would like your support to call in or physically testify on this bill, please. This bill limits corporate investors buying up property in Nevada.
Wednesday Date: April 9, 2025 Start Time: 1 p.m. Room 1214 of the Legislative Building, 401 South Carson Street, Carson City, NV.
Videoconferenced to Room 6 of the Nevada Legislature Hearing Rooms, 7120 Amigo Street, Las Vegas, NV. Room: 1214
Call-in information
To provide public comment or testimony telephonically, dial (888) 475-4499 on the date of the meeting.
When prompted, provide Meeting ID 88399534749 and then press #. When prompted for a Participant ID, press #.
Call (775) 684-1300 for assistance.
MORE USEFUL INFORMATION
Please submit all documents in support of your testimony to this email address: SenJUD@sen.state.nv.us
Bill text and info
https://legiscan.com/NV/bill/SB391/2025WATCH ON SENATE WEBSITE (Closed captioning available)
https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00324/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20250409/-1/?fk=15962&viewmode=1WATCH ON YOUTUBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZQDmWPx1WwWe are pleased to make reasonable accommodations for non-English speakers or people with disabilities. If special arrangements for the meeting are necessary, please notify us by email at accessibility@lcb.state.nv.us or by phone at (775) 684-6903.
Senate Committee Members
• Melanie Scheible, D-LV - Chair
• Edgar Flores, D-LV - Vice Chair
• James Ohrenschall, D-LV
• Roberta Lange, D-LV
• Rochelle T. Nguyen, D-LV
• Ira Hansen, R-Sparks & rurals
• Lisa Krasner , R-Reno
• John Ellison, R-ElkoContact Information for Senate Judiciary Committee staff
E-mail your support to <SenJUD@sen.state.nv.us> anytime.Sen. Dina Neal plans 2025 bill to rein in rampant Wall Street speculation on single family homes
Barbwire by Andrew Barbano / Sparks Tribune 12-25-2024SEN. DINA NEAL, D-North Las Vegas, remains in Reno's Renown Regional Medical Center where she was admitted last week to undergo emergency heart surgery.
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-26-2025Thanks to all who attended or called in suppport.
Before the Nevada State Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Testimony of Andrew Barbano / April 9, 2025
Mme. Chair, committee members and honored guests:
My name is Andrew Barbano. I am the editor of Rentvolution.org, NevadaLabor.com and SenJoeNeal.org among others. I am a former first vice-president of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, member of statewide Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and a former member of Culinary Local 226.
I have been involved in renters' rights and housing equity issues since the 1970s.
I have written a column for the Sparks Tribune and other publications since 1988 and have resided in Nevada since 1969. I rented in both Las Vegas and Reno before I bought my Reno home.
It is good to see Sen. Neal standing tall on her first day back on the job. I congratulate Sen. Neal for introducing AB 391, SB 121 (homeowner assocation reform) and others and welcome her back with today after more than a month of recovery. She has been in my prayers and emanations.
Nevada renters have always had precious few rights in law and even fewer when they need to assert them.
Wall Street is awash in cash and outbidding actual homebuyers who need housing — and turning them into exploited renters.
This bill is a modest attempt to right the ship and I wholeheartedly support it.
You may read decades of research on these issues at Rentvolution.org, including the seldom-told tale of how the Reno City Council actually passed rent control back in the 1970s and quickly repealed it.
I will upload these comments to my websites. media and labor e-lists, social media accounts and to the committee members.
Thanks for the insight from my former longtime Sparks Tribune colleague Sen. Hansen. Nice to be on the same side for a change, Ira.
And thanks to Sen. Neal. I am sure your father is watching over us and smiling.
Please support SB 391.
Andrew Barbano
(775) 747-0544
<barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>
Reno, NV [In the districts of Sen. Angie Taylor (D) and Assemblymember Goulding (D)]
UPDATE 4-17-2025: In the committee work session later on 4-9, SB391 was sent to the Assembly floor with a "do pass as amended" recommendation. All Democrats and Sen. Hansen supported the bill. Thanks to all who testified.
Toxic sludge is good for you
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-9-2025Pinky & the Brain taking over the world
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 4-2-2025MAYDAY! T-Rump executive order will kill the registrations of 21 million voters for 2026
By Greg Palast / 3-27-2024Send back the Statue of Liberty
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-26-2025
Donald Trump's Death Sentences
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-19-2025
Be There or Be Square—>
Where? The UNR Square, natch!
(Actually, the Quad. Which ain't square. Do they even teach jeeommertree* anymore?)Reno, NV USA 3-11-2025 GMT —> Nevada System of Higher Education Graduate Assistants Rally Wednesday 3/12
Urge NSHE to Recognize Their Union and Support Bill to Grant Collective Bargaining RightsIn Reno and Las Vegas, workers and allies will urge administrators to
recognize their union and work with them to pass Assembly Bill 191,
which would formally extend collective bargaining rights to graduate workers.Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Reno: 11:00 AM - Outside of the Joe Crowley Student Union on the UNR Campus
Las Vegas: 1:00 PM - UNLV Alumni Amphitheater in front of the FDH
This Wednesday, March 12, Graduate Assistants at the NSHE will hold rallies in Reno and Las Vegas to call on NSHE officials to respect their democratic choice to form a union, and to work with them to pass Assembly Bill 191, which would formally extend collective bargaining rights to Graduate Assistants and other NSHEemployees. Press is welcome.
The following is an excerpt of testimony given Friday, March 7 before the State Assembly Government Affairs Committee, in support of AB 191
and grad worker unionization:
“I graduated summa cum laude from UNLV with my bachelor’s degree,
and when it came time for graduate school, UNLV was the only university I applied to,” said Evelyn Ariam, a Graduate Assistant in the School of Integrated Health Sciences at UNLV. I chose to stay because I believe in this institution and its potential to provide an exceptional education and do cutting-edge research.
“But despite my and my coworkers’ valuable contributions to NSHE, we
lack a real voice to address the challenges we face. In a recent survey,
1 in 4 GAs said that they have experienced or witnessed harassment or
discrimination in the workplace. 1 in 4 have experienced or witnessed
retaliation for raising workplace issues. And 79% of GAs stated they do
not feel that their pay covers their living expenses."I personally have been forced to skip meals, sell blood plasma on a weekly basis, and have worried if the gas in my car was enough to make it to work and classes.
“In order to maintain UNLV and UNR’s R1 Carnegie status, we must
attract and retain top-tier scholars. But how can we do that when wages
don’t cover rent, when there’s no independent recourse for
mistreatment, and when GAs’ positions are constantly insecure?”
A supermajority of 2,500 Graduate Assistants have signed union
authorization cards to form Nevada Graduate Student Workers-UAW. In
November, GAs announced their majority and requested that University
administration recognize their union and begin negotiations for a first
contract. But since then, officials have not yet agreed to support
recognition of their union or count the authorization cards to verify GA
majority support.
UNR DETAILS
Who: Graduate Assistants, Nevada State AFL-CIO Executive
Secretary-Treasurer Susie Martinez, and more.
When: 11am, Wednesday, March 12
Where: Outside the Joe Crowley Student Union on the UNR Campus
UNLV DETAILS
Who: Graduate Assistants, community allies, and more.
When: 1:00 pm, Wednesday March 12
Where: Alumni Amphitheater in front of the Student Union
Background: NGSW-UAW is a group of Graduate Assistants (GAs) at UNR, UNLV and the Desert Research Institute working together to form a union to improve our working conditions. GAs make critical contributions to teaching and research at the University but lack secure rights and protections in the workplace, and struggle to afford housing and other basic expenses. GAs formed a union because we believe the best way to make progress on these issues is through negotiating a collective bargaining agreement, as 3,000 NSHE classified staff have done.
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CONTACT : Bergen Kenny Woodbury
BrightLine Communications
(415) 819-0959
* Gee, Ometry. Why did your parents name you Ometry?
(Ancient kiddy joke.)
How to become a Nevada welfare queen
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-12-2025Czar Dastardo Donaldov to Congress 3-4-2025: "America is back!"
INDEED, flat on her back.
March comes in with a lion —> from Ukraine
Red Scares and Nobel Red Flags
Warnings from Walesa and Ressa
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 3-5-2025
Washington DC 2-28-2025 —> So refreshing, heartening and energizing to see a leader with brass balls in the Oval Office as opposed to the Russian traitor with three gold balls hanging in his pawn shop
Be well and raise hell, President Volodymyr / America is with you and our democracies
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Stay tuned for much more!
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Penalty Flags at the State of the Union
3-2-2025
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts:
Czar Dastardo will give his State of the Union sermon Tuesday evening, March 4.
Please contact your senators and congresscritters to engage in a dignified critique. After all, we owe the moonhowlers one after some Confederate yahoo screamed "you lie!" at President Barack Obama in 2009. (The stunt made that cracker a quick million in contributions. There's one born every minute.)
Several others have followed. We can do better. Ask your lawmakers to bring little American flags with them. Every time the Orange Crusher tells a lie Tuesday night, politely wave your flags. If the GOP controllers try to stop you, they will be caught on camera preventing displays of patriotism. Should they bar flags after they see this, bring several large white handkerchiefs. If they try to grab the hankies, tell your reps to first blow their noses. And blow their noses at every lie thereafter. Loudly. But politely. It's allergy season.
Czar Dastardo and his consigliere Hillbilly JD Clampett tried to ambush Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of cameras they invited into the Oval Office last Friday. Instead, the little guy ambushed them and kicked their arrogant asses.
The embarrassing U.S. team and their Russian handlers gloated. These guys don't know when they've lost. T-Rump had set Zelenskyy up to grovel before worldwide TV. It was so refreshing, heartening and energizing to see a leader with brass balls in the Oval Office as opposed to the bleached blonde Russian traitor with three gold balls hanging in his pawn shop.
T-Rump was quoted as saying it was "great TV," the same thing he said while watching his treasonous mob trying to hang V.P. Mike Pence and anyone else they could grab on Jan. 6, 2021.
Our wannabe dictator was correct. Last Friday was indeed great TV. But not for him. Forget what was said. Concentrate on what you saw: Two overweight six-foot rich studs in $5,000 suits beating up on a poor little guy trying to save his country from more wholesale murder, mayhem, rape and pillage.
Z didn't grovel and did not cave to the shakedown.
Be well and raise hell, President Volodymyr. America is with you and our democracies.
ZELENSKYY FOR PRESIDENT!
PRAYERS FOR POPE FRANCIS TODAY. Nevada ecumenical religious activist Rajan Zed has a announced service, including candlelight vigil and special multi-faith prayers, for the full and swift recovery of Pope Francis hospitalized in Rome,
It will include prayers from Christian (various denominations), Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha’i, Native American and other traditions in English, Spanish, Arabic, Sanskrit, Pali, Persian, Hebrew and Paiute.
WHERE: Unity Center of Reno, 2207 Kings Row, Reno, NV 89503
WHEN: STARTING AT 10:00 a.m. PST today.
CONTACT: <rajanzed2@aol.com>
All are welcome. Coffee and snacks will be available after the service. No charge to attend.
MEDIA MODERNIZATION STARTING NOW. Biden and his punctilious A.G. Merrick Garland insisted on playing by outdated rules. Look where they left us.
OLD RULES: If the president says it, then it's news.
NEW RULES: HELL, NO. Grant standard coverage to important issues, not gratuitous grandstanding. Otherwise, use text-only graphics and perhaps audio recordings of T-Rump's mental meanderings if you must.
Cut down his face time, the thing he craves most when not playing golf. In his bestseller "Audience of One," NY TImes TV critic James Poniewozik reported that our pixelated president thrives by "keeping the red light on." No, not Stormy Daniels' house, but the red lights on TV cameras. When the lights go off, he knows he must pivot to another outrageous stunt. Alas, multitudes of voters think his performance mania is for real. Time to control the truculent little bully boy. After all, he wants to put all fake news media he can't control out of business.
OSCAR GETS A BRAZILIAN: Should "I'm Still Here" win an Oscar Sunday night, I predict you will the see headline of this item go viral. The film from Rio is about the largest country in South America becoming a brutal dictatorship half a century ago.
Nothing like that could ever happen here, right? Right?
Much more about all of the above in this week's Barbwire by Barbano in the Sparks (Northern Nevada) Tribune and NevadaLabor.com/
Be well. Raise hell. / Este bien. Haga infierno.
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CWA 9413/AFL-CIO
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Down there among the swamp critters
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-26-2025Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-19-2025Rise of the Reptilian Brain Trust
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-12-2025
Hundreds gather in Nevada state capital to protest Trump policies
By: Kelsey Penrose / ThisIsReno.com / 2-5-2025
Hundreds protest Trump administration actions at rally in Nevada capital
By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette-Journal /2-5-2025Anti-Trump protesters voice concerns at Capitol, dispute draws investigation
Driver points gun at demonstrators
By Scott Neuffer / Carson City Nevada Appeal / Fallon Lahontan Valley News / 2-5-2025RENO NV 2-5-2025 —> RAISE HELL ON HUMP DAY! Please distribute.
50/50 demonstration in front of Nevada Legislative Building, Carson City, NV 12noon Feb. 5.
The depredations of Czar Dastardo Donaldov and Prime Minister Elon Mush must not stand. (See today's Barbwire in the Sparks Tribune: "The Spaghetti Wall." Up shortly at NevadaLabor.com.)
TRULY A GRASS ROOTS UPRISING STARTED BY ONE GUY. Google "50 in 50 feb 5 demonstrations" for more info. Story has gone viral. My union brother Paul Lenart tipped me about this yesterday. One guy in, of all places, Missoula MT, started this off, he said. A local non-profit jumped in resulting in today's 50/50 (plus the provinces and DC, I hope)
Endorsements of today's Carson event include the Democratic Party, Indivisible Nevada, the National Nurses Union and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), according to Bro. Lenart.
Watch NevadaLabor.com for updates as they arrive. Spread the word.
Be well. Raise hell. Stay safe.
Andrew Quarantino Barbano
CesarChavezNevada.com
NevadaLabor.com
Barbwire.US
(775) 882-TALK
T-Rump CONSIDERS GAZA HIS LATEST REAL ESTATE OPPORTUNITY. WHOM TO BLAME? HOW ABOUT ME.
From the Barbwire in the Sparks Tribune of 3-27-2024:
"THE JOKE I DARED NOT PRINT. Not long after the 2023 start of the Gaza War, I wrote a gag ad for a new high rise luxury condo on cheap balmy beachfront Mediterranean property. The BibiHamas Towers would be immunized against missile and artillery attacks because they would be jointly owned by Israel and Iran. I never developed the item because all that death and destruction are not fair game for satire.
"Until...the fake news New York Times reported on Israeli real estate developers hosting shows in New Jersey and Toronto offering choice investment opportunities in the Holy Land. Complete with protestors, of course.
"I'm on the mailing list of evangelicals promoting tours of Israel even in wartime. US fundamentalists are Israel's most solid tourist base, supporting the country in anticipation of the prophecy of Armageddon being fulfilled.
"We're getting close."ALAS AND ALACK, life imitates art. In his White House meeting with BibiYayhoo yesterday, Czar Dastardo Donaldov proposed exactly that, only with him as developer. Moving more than a million Palestinians somewhere? Piece of cake. Or halvah. Hitler moved over six million very efficiently, right? And we're already building U.S. concentration camps. Might as well expand the business. Watch for Bitcoin investment offerings.
Gaza can be the 52nd state after Canada caves. Greenland and Panama, maybe. Puerto Rico, HELL NO!El Presidente thinks they talk funny.
"We become what we despise" — Goethe
CWA 9413/AFL-CIO
CC2/5 50/50/BallotBoxing/opsn25aThe Spaghetti Wall
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 2-5-2025Dastardly depredations of Czar Dastardo
Inattention abstention on coronation day
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-29-2025
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-22-2025Happy MLK Day. Sorta.
27th ANNUAL MLK DAY COMMUNITY CARAVAN
On the Northern Nevada Martin Luther King. Jr. Highway
All are welcomeMonday January 20, 2025
Caravan gathers at 10:30 a.m. PST
Departure 11:00 a.mRehoboth Holy Temple
700 Smithridge Drive / Reno, Nevada 89502
Info: Don Gallimore / Reno-Sparks NAACP
donaldgallimore1@gmail.com
(775) 303-1057
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
On January 16, 1959, two babies were born. They became sisters in both life and death.
My daughters would have turned 66 today, senior citizens bouncing grandchildren on their knees. Alas and alack, 'twas never to be.
Debra Joyce Donlevy and Donna Leslie Cline remain instead forever young, victims of the monster that stalks Nevada until this very day.
Our dark desert highways are dangerous and deadly, as is the emergency medical care available outside of the metros. I have been writing about it for decades. (Do a websearch for "NevadaLabor.com Cline Donlevy".) Until I did so just before I composed this memento, I had not realized how many times and many ways I have told their story. Any change in cowboy cartoonland is slow, stingy and grudging.
Memories both bale and beautiful reside hereat.
The cliché goes that once something's up on the Internet, it's there forever. I will so mandate in my will that their story be funded in perpetuity.
Remember them in your travels and in the tales you tell. See their pretty faces and read about their lives and those they touched.
Stay safe and take care of each other.
Andrew Quarantino Barbano
Barbano.net
NevadaLabor.com
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MEDIA ADVISORY: THURSDAY, JAN. 16
-PRESS CONFERENCE-
Letter Signed By Majority Of State Legislators In Support Of Thousands
Of Graduate Assistants Asking To Unionize To Be Delivered To NSHE
In Reno and Las Vegas, state legislators, Nevada State AFL-CIO officials, and frontline workers will highlight Nevada System of Higher Educastion failure to recognize the union.
Thursday January 16, 2025
Reno: 12:00 PM PT - Outside Clark Administration Building on the UNR Campus
Las Vegas: 12:30 PM PT Outside NSHE Building (4300 S. Maryland Pkwy)
Las Vegas & Reno, NV. — This Thursday, January 16, Graduate Assistants at the NSHE will hold press conferences in Reno and Las Vegas to deliver
letters signed by the majority of both NV legislative chambers that call on NSHE officials to respect the democratic choice of graduate assistants to form a union. Press is welcome to attend.
A supermajority of 2,500 Graduate Assistants have signed union authorization cards to form Nevada Graduate Student Workers-UAW.
In November, GAs announced their majority and requested that the University administration recognize their union and begin negotiations for a first
contract. But since then, officials have not yet agreed to union recognition.
“As Graduate Assistants, we perform the majority of research andteaching at the University of Nevada. The university works because we
do,” said Keely Rodriguez, Chemistry Graduate Assistant at theUniversity of Nevada, Reno. “But too many of us have been subjected to
discrimination and harassment and struggle to pay for housing and food. We formed a union to have an equal say to address these pressing issues. This Thursday we are coming together with our allies in the community and the legislature to tell NSHE to respect our democratic choice to
unionize, and come to the bargaining table now."We are asking for the same collective bargaining process that other NSHE employees currently possess,” said Evelyn Airam, a Graduate Assistant in the School of Integrated Health Sciences at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
“In a recent survey distributed by GAs across NSHE, 7percent of GAs stated they do not feel that their pay and benefits are sufficient to cover their living expenses. We love our jobs and we want them to be sustainable, so that we can focus our energies on teaching and research, instead of how to make ends meet. A strong union contract is the best way to achieve this.”
UNR DETAILS:
Who: State Senator Angie Taylor, Assemblywoman Erica Roth, Frontline
Graduate Assistants, and more.
When: 12pm, Thurs, Jan 16th
Where: Outside Clark Administration Building on the UNR Campus.
UNLV DETAILS:
Who: State Senator Fabian Doñate, Graduate Assistants, Nevada State
AFL-CIO officials, and more.
When: 12:30 pm, Thurs, Jan 16th
Where: Outside NSHE Building (4300 S. Maryland Pkwy.)
Background: NGSW-UAW is a group of Graduate Assistants (GAs) at UNR, UNLV, and the Desert Research Institute working together to form a union
to improve our working conditions. GAs make critical contributions to teaching and research but lack secure rights and protections in the
workplace, and struggle to afford housing and other basic expenses. GAs formed a union because we believe the best way to make progress on these
issues is through negotiating a collective bargaining agreement, as 3,000 NSHE classified staff have done.
________
CONTACT: Bergen Kenny Woodbury
BrightLine Communications
(415) 819.0959
Links:
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[1] https://ngsw-uaw.org/
Northern Nevada Sheet Metal & HVAC Apprenticeship
Unveils New Website and Brand Identity
Cutting-edge Design and Enhanced User Experience to Benefit Apprenticeship Recruitment and Training
Reno-Sparks, NV— The Northern Nevada Sheet Metal & HVAC Apprenticeship is proud to announce the launch of our new website, www.nnsmhvactraining.org, as part of a comprehensive rebranding effort.This new platform offers an engaging and streamlined experience for prospective applicants, current apprentices, our Local 26 members, industry partners, and the broader community.
The website highlights the apprenticeship's modern brand identity, complete with professional imagery of our people, innovative projects, and state-of-the-art training center. Featuring a user-friendly and efficient application process, the website simplifies the path for individuals seeking to enter the sheet metal industry. This new system is not only beneficial for applicants but also for staff, as it is designed to save countless hours of administrative work, allowing the team to focus on enhancing training and support for apprentices.
Through the four-year paid apprenticeship, participants gain on-the-job training combined with classroom instruction in HVAC systems, welding, architectural sheet metal and more. Apprentices also earn college credits, competitive wages, and benefits, ensuring a strong foundation for successful, long-term careers.
"Our new website is a testament to the vision and collaboration that went into this rebranding effort," said Thomas Blotzke, JATC Coordinator. "We're incredibly grateful to Second Story Marketing Group for their creativity and professionalism in helping us showcase who we are and what we do. Their work has been instrumental in communicating our mission and elevating our presence in our industry."
About Northern Nevada Sheet Metal & HVAC Apprenticeship
Established in 1942, the Northern Nevada Sheet Metal & HVAC Apprenticeship provides comprehensive training to prepare individuals for successful careers in HVAC, welding, and architectural sheet metal. With a focus on hands-on experience and classroom education, the program equips apprentices with the skills needed to thrive in the sheet metal industry while promoting lifelong learning and professional growth.
Contact Information:
Northern Nevada Sheet Metal & HVAC Apprenticeship
Brooke Noel, Administrative Assistant/Public Relations Coordinator
Phone: (775) 331-6393
Email: bnoel@smart26jatc.org
The Goats of the Ides of January
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-15-2025Dark depredations & golden opportunities
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-8-2025A walk thru the Wayback Machine
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 1-1-2025Give peace a chance
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-25-2024 / Updated
FROM THE PICKET LINE —> AFFILIATE ACTION ALERT
ALL HANDS ON DECK!
UPDATE 12-21-2024 GMT— Teamsters Local 533 needs strike support at the Lemmon Valley Amazon Distribution Center.
WHERE: Amazon Fulfillment RNO4, 8000 N Virginia St, Reno NV 89506
WHEN: Happening NOW and going 24/7 until called off
This is a national strike at numerous Amazon locations throughout the United States. It is an unfair labor practice strike, and all locations will be active primary picket lines.
We encourage our brothers and sisters from other unions to participate in solidarity by joining the Teamsters on the picket line. For more information, contact Ross Kinson at ross@teamsters533.org or 775-247-5673.Español —> CesarChavezNevada.com
Teamsters Local 533 Calls for Solidarity Strike at Amazon Distribution Center, Northern Nevada Central Labor Council Joins Nationwide Action
Reno, NV – December 18, 2024 – Teamsters Local 533 and the Northern Nevada Central Labor Council are calling on the Northern Nevada community to support a nationwide strike at Amazon locations throughout the United States. The strike is in response to unfair labor practices at Amazon.
Strike Details:
• Location: Amazon Fulfillment RNO4, 8000 N Virginia St., Reno NV 89506
• Start Time: Thursday, December 19 at 6:00 AM
• Duration: 24/7 until called off
This strike will see active primary picket lines at multiple Amazon locations nationwide. This is a ULP (Unfair Labor Practice) strike, as Amazon refuses to schedule time to come to the table with Teamsters to discuss a fair contract for Amazon workers. The NNCLC encourages all union members, as well as elected officials and members of the community, to stand in solidarity with the Teamsters by joining the picket line at the Lemmon Valley Amazon
Distribution Center.
For more information, contact Ross Kinson at ross@teamsters533.org or 775-247-5673 or Gary Watson at gary@teamsters533.org or 775-527-2391.
Amazon Delivery Drivers at Seven Hubs Walk Out
By Noam Scheiber and Santul Nerkar
The New York Times 12-19 digital, 12-20-2024 print editionTeamsters Launch Largest Strike Against Amazon in American History
By Kara Deniz / International Sisterhood & Brotherhood of Teamsters 12-19-2024Picket line set for North Valleys Amazon warehouse in support of national strike
By Bob Conrad / ThisIsReno.com 12-18-2024Amazon workers across US gear up to strike this week
By Michael Sainato / The Guardian/UK 12-17-2024Teamsters Local 533
Strike War Room
Starbucks workers' union strikes across US as talks hit impasse
By Savyata Mishra, Gursimrankaur Mehar & Renee Hickman / Reuters 12-21-24NevadaLabor.com Starbux in Nevada archives
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The Mickey Mouse conspiracy
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-18-2024
Betty J. Barbano
2-7-1941 / 12-27-2005
Remember her laughterOn January 16, 1959, two babies were born.
They became sisters in both life and death.Larry Barbano, Frater Mei
12-18-1947 / 10-18-2023Don't mess with Mary Poppins
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 12-11-2024The parable of the pasta water
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Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 11-20-2024BEWARE THE IDES OF NOVEMBER
STRIKE! Culinary and Bartenders unions strike Virgin Las Vegas Nov. 15 5:00 a.m. PST
Las Vegas, NV (Nov. 15 2024 5:00 a.m. PST) — For the first time in more than 22 years, the Culinary Union has taken workers out in an open-ended strike at a Las Vegas resort. Over 700 hospitality employees stopped work at the Virgin Las Vegas beginning Friday, November 15 at 5:00 a.m. PST. We will continue as long as it takes to win a new 5-year union contract. We formed picket lines around the property which will remain in place 24/7. Culinary Union Local 226 urges customers and community allies to *not* cross the strike line. We respectfully request that customers check out of the property, choose a union accommodation, dine at union restaurants and cancel reservations. Thanks for your support. Stay tuned.
¡Viva huelga!¡Sí se puede!
President Hoover, meet Smoot and Hawley
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US, TOO—>'Surprising' poll: Harris leads Trump by 3 points in Nevada, Rosen ahead of Brown by 12
By Mark Robison / Reno Gazette Journal 11-4-2024 9:04 a.m. PST
Heavyweight addition to Harris now up by 3% in Iowa according to authorititative Des Moines Register pollFASCISM? That's a new face cream, right?
Barbwire by Andrew Quarantino Barbáno / Expanded from the Sparks Tribune 10-30-2024
