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The big news stories of the day
Statewide
News Roundup
and more 2002-03 news archives
in
addition to the archive below, which goes back to 2000
Fired
worker wins sex discrimination lawsuit
against
Caesars Palace after seven years
Nevada jobless rate at 5.5% ranks 18th-highest
in the nation
Carson
City employer loses 60% of workers in INS bust
Workers
had forged documents
Heavily-fined
employer plans to re-open plant
which had fatal explosion
Nevada
Plant Explosion Archive
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PEACE
BREAKS OUT IN LAS VEGAS
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Culinary
negotiates richest LV Strip contract in history
Non-union
LV & Reno hotels next targets
Round-the-clock
demonstrations and negotiations bring downtown LV properties
to
new five-year agreement
LV
bus drivers approve new contract, end strike
Reno
bus drivers stage 7-hour warning-shot walkout
Teamsters
save 136 jobs at U.S. Navy Top Gun base
Barbwire
Exclusives —
Teamsters
stop UPS northern Nevada layoffs of 100+
Power
bill kills senior citizen
Conflicts of interest
between lawmakers & utilities
Nevada
utility ratepayers face fixed fight
SPP/NP
CEO Higgins calls consumer advocate a liar...
Then
ejects ratepayer rep from press conference
The
smoking guns of Enron
Where to sign the
SierraPacific/NevadaPower petition
Raging ratepayers
heat up tar and feathers
Nevada
Energy Crisis War
Room
Consumer advocate on Barbano
TV show
FLASH!
Big win for labor in Nevada Supreme Court prevailing
wage decision
Time
Printing's Randy Smith, 39, dies in
ATV accident
Was
to receive Nevada State AFL-CIO award in February
Auto
theft legalized in Nevada
Same
Reno judge who stuck northwest Reno with K-Mart overrules city
council and plunks a Wal-Mart
SuperBox
a mile away; citizens livid.
Complete
info at Wal-Mart War Room
Federal
judge orders
pay raises
for Washoe Medical Center nurses
Uptight
chief and Nevada Highway Patrol union agree
to bury
the hatchet upon removal from mutual shoulderblades
NEW
Andrew Barbano Television
Series
Judge
Mills Lane on Rudolph Giuliani
Former referee Mills Lane on banning Mike Tyson
Laborers'
Union Local 169 wins national award for Flagger
Moms of Orange Cone Hell
safety campaign
DMV
deja vu all over again — long waits plague state's
phone-only unemployment
insurance system
Starbucks,
GM & Sen. McCarran's armpit mirage
Corporate welfare special report
Goat
polo poses peril to America
Northern
Nevada Building Trades Council
grinds and brews Starbucks campaign
Starbucks
scores big bucks from Nevada school kids
Newspaper
editor creams corporate welfare commission
Nevada
keeps prison labor growth under wraps
Reno
city attorney to review union-proposed
mandatory
severance pay law for casinos
Reno
Flamingo-Hilton hotel-casino closes
Workers
feel disrespected, short-changed
UPDATE
— Union
wins Flamingo severance pay
Man
dies under custody of Wal-Mart
security guards in Las Vegas
WORKERS
CRITICALLY BURNED, ONE KILLED IN PLANT EXPLOSIONS
NEW Heavily-fined
employer plans to re-open plant
which had fatal explosion
Company
fined $144,000 by state
Local
government still refuses to act
Minden
worker severely burned saving co-workers
Workers
burned in Minden explosion critical
Latino
Minden worker dies of burns
Lack
of business license law predisposed disaster
Editorial
— State fire marshall clueless
Deja
vu all over again in Las Vegas
SIGN
THIS OR ELSE — Nevada Supreme Court okays
docking worker paychecks for cash shortages
Ninth
Circuit Court rules for picketers and protestors
in landmark case
Culinary Union defeats Sheldon Adelson's Venetian
Anyone
wanting a copy of the decision, request
it here
and we'll e-mail it to you in pdf format.
Reno
Gazette-Journal editorially praises decision
Business
as usual: Some ignore the court
NEVADA
STATE AFL-CIO CONVENTION
Culinary
parties over Hiltons while GM shops locations
Strikebreakers continue work at Washoe Med with strike long gone
Unions raise funds for Teamsters' four year-old leukemia victim
Railroaders must fight for pension
Beijing Olympics:
laughs and glue
factories
NEVADALABOR.COM
READERS KNEW IT FIRST —
DARLENE JESPERSEN, BARTENDER FIRED BY HARRAH'S-RENO FOR REFUSAL
TO WEAR MAKEUP, FILES MAJOR FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS SUIT
RENO, NV (July 6, 5:24:05 p.m. PDT) — Reno attorney Jeffrey
Dickerson filed a six-count claim and jury trial demand in U.S.
District Court. For details, analysis and links to similar cases,
see Barbwire by Barbano
in the Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune. For regional and national
fallout, the Jespersen case home page and archive, click
here.
Legal
beagles and labor bulldogs may also read the complete
text of the federal civil rights filing.
UTILITY
RE-DEREGULATION
ROLLING
SNAKE EYES IN THE DARK
BLACKOUTS BLACKJACK LAS VEGAS
Sen.
Neal accuses Nevada Power
of
conspiracy
with Enron
Nevada
Power seeks $929 million rate hike
Nevada
Utility Reform Alliance blasts state regulators
Despite
huge rate hikes and guaranteed profits,
rich utility sold off power, causing LV blackout
Mea
Maxima Culpa — Nevada Power tries to explain it all away
Consumer
advocate blasts utility resource plan
Consumer
advocate calls for warning ratepayers ---> Casinos were not
asked to cut back during first rolling blackouts in LV history
Consumer
advocate — Blackouts could have been avoided
Nevada
Power admits failure to warn public and notify officials
Blackouts
loom for Las Vegas
AB
661, the bill to deregulate large power users such as mines
and casinos, was the last measure passed by the Nevada State Senate
at three minutes before 12M PDT on June 4. It will skyrocket small
consumer rates. The laudable opposition: Sen.
Joe Neal, D-North Las Vegas, and Las Vegas Sens. Ann O'Connell
(R), William O'Donnell (R), Dina Titus (D) and Valerie Wiener
(D).
It cleared the lower
house after
the constitutional adjournment deadline. A special remedial
session called by the guv failed to resolve matters. For updates,
watch the Energy Crisis War Room
and the
Barbwire.
ROUND
3 — CASINOS RULE SUPREME
WIN BY KNOCKOUT, AS USUAL
GOVERNOR
BOTH SUPPORTS AND OPPOSES DEREGULATION
ROUND
2-Lawyers argue AB661 before non-harmonious Supremes
Gamblers
and miners demand that Supreme Court impose AB 661
ROUND
ONE — First AB661 Supreme Court hearing
AB
661 and AB 94 court fights spark constitutional power plays
Townsend
and Guinn reverse pro-consumer energy positions
Neal
fights for consumers against Townsend, casinos & mines
Nevada
AFL-CIO, IBEW join growing opposition
to Nevada power plant sales
STATEWIDE
NEWS ROUNDUP
More
than 1,000 teachers leave union; shortages haunt Las Vegas
John L. Smith —
The
primary dignity of work as a 2nd chance at life
Reagan-appointed
judge denies Nevada casino workers class action status in four
casino secondhand smoking cases
$50,000
compensation available for uranium workers and nuclear test downwinders
Nuked
workers vent at feds
Labor
Secretary Chao opens first of 10 centers for nuked workers
See complete nuke news roundup
at bottom
Las
Vegas nuked worker center opens
Teleperformance
moves 90 jobs out of Carson City
Website
causes world to reach out to comatose NHP trooper UPDATE—NHP
Trooper recovers slowly, undergoes therapy
LV
Police Review Board yields 71 complaints in first year
Giant
steps for women in firefighting came 25 years apart
When
corporate welfare becomes an Olympic sport
TAKE
THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT -- Las Vegas faces mass teacher exodus and
500 unfilled positions this fall
Wal-Mart and others
named to Southern Nevada Interfaith Council for Worker Justice
employer
book of shame
Las
Vegas — Davey Roofing company makes book of shame
Hoffa
re-election support strong despite criticism
Teamsters
kick off international convention in Las Vegas
U.S.
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao hits patients' bill of rights, then
tours Las Vegas Culinary Union training academy
TIME FOR A RAISE
—
Culinary Union inks first contracts
with Reno Hilton and Flamingo Hilton- Reno
Las
Vegas CityLife — Can Nevada Latinos spark a progressive movement
in a retro state where the Sixties never happened?
Hugh
Jackson fired — Las
Vegas CityLife axes crusading editor of weekly newspaper
UPDATE
from LV CityLife columnist Anthony Allison
Las
Vegas Sun -- National Latino groups eye the Silver State
HEALTH
CARE FIGHT ESCALATES
Ex-guv O'Callaghan calls for health
care crisis summit
Nevada
doctors face malpractice insurance crisis
Top Democrats want hospital price
controls
Tentative
settlement with LV hospitals
Federal
judge orders
pay raises for Washoe Medical Center nurses
Nevada nursing shortage reaching crisis stage
Thousands
of LV workers may lose health care
Labor
hospital cost coalition formed
Woman pleads guilty to kidnapping newborn Mother
to sue Washoe Medical Center
STRIKE 3 — Staff shortages spawn another
strike
Third
Washoe Med nursing strike ends; no bargaining in sight
Nurses
accuse Reno hospital of illegal and unfair labor practices
Reno
Washoe Med nurses schedule another strike
Elderly-abusing
gray market Rx racket exposed
Federal
judge hears Reno Washoe nurses' charges
Union
takes LV Sunrise nurses' firings to state
Strikebreakers
continue work at Washoe Med with strike long gone
Washoe
Med strike/lockout ends without incident
Strikebreakers
say they're not strikebreakers
Nurses
end one-day strike, get locked out
NEWSFLASH
-- FEDERAL
LABOR BODY RULES FOR NURSES
Washoe
Medical Center nurses schedule strike
Ex-
Gov. O'Callaghan -- NV nursing shortage growing and dangerous
Short-staffing
drives Reno nurses to picket lines
Washoe
Medical Center tries to force rejected contract onto nurses
Nurses, like
Nevada teachers, must engineer creative strikes
WE'RE NUMBER 1 -- Nevada has nation's worst nursing shortage
Statewide nursing news roundup
"Screwed
and destitute"
Nevada Attorney General Del Papa sides with right-wing U.S.
Supreme Court against Nevada prison guard
Wal-Mart
hit with largest sex discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S.
history
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
-- Carson City government begs Wal-Mart
to stay, offers CC Fairgrounds and pristine Fuji Park properties.
Citizens petition to save park and creek from Big Box Bulldozer
Carson City newspaper publisher sides against Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart rejects
Fuji Park offer, other big-boxers may not
Stories
and resources at the WAL-MART WAR ROOM
EXCLUSIVE
— Wal-Mart sues to reverse Reno superstore loss
Las
Vegas — Kiss my foot, boss! Cocktail servers rally at Venetian
Bosses
act like footwear — These heels ain't made for walkin'
SIT
ON THIS — Mirage cocktail waitresses win round in
federal court against Steve Wynn, who called them "fat asses"
FOR MUCH MORE Go
to "Tales of the Sagebrush Plantation,"
below*
Supremes
rule that one sexual remark is not harassment
Las
Vegas-- Dolores Huerta Center helps low-wage workers
Sparks
cops announce renewed roust of day laborers
AT&T
cuts northern Nevada union jobs
STUDY:
NAFTA costs thousands of Nevada jobs
John
L. Smith: Work card requirements nonsensical
LVRJ
Editorial -- LV work card ordinance won't withstand lawsuit
Las
Vegas Sun Editorial -- Don't kill subsequent injury fund
Longtime
Nevada labor leader Dan Rusnak retires
Rich Houts succeeds Rusnak as Nevada AFL-CIO VP
Richard "Skip" Daly becomes business manager of Laborers
169
Bob
Gagnier, 30-year leader of NV state employees union, retires
CONSUMER
ALERT --
Insurance deregulation passes state senate Only Sens. Carlton,
Mathews, Neal, Titus and Wiener vote no on SB4
LVRJ:
Sen. Neal standing alone, breaking the Silence of the Lambs
CLINGING
TO THE LEDGE -- SPECIAL REPORT
Bill to undercut prevailing wage law killed
CWA wins fight to preserve state printshop jobs
Here's how to contact your representatives
New
Nor. Nev. Interfaith Council calls for federal min. wage increase
Reno
Gazette-Journal endorses minimum wage boost
Orange
Cone Hell now on a roadway near you
Double
penalties for speeding through road construction zones
BARBWIRE:
Carpenters Union defects from AFL-CIO
Sparks City Council votes to cut local prevailing wage jobs
Sparks city elections: predictions, predilections and Pepto Bismol
NEWS ROUNDUP: Equal
Pay Day -- women shortchanged as usual
AFL-CIO's
Linda Chavez-Thompson backs NV gender equity study
UPDATE
-- Gender
pay equity study bill makes the cut
Nevada employment discrimination remedies called
a joke
Nevada
workers remain cheap, disposable, interchangeable parts
New schools under construction in danger of boarding up
TALES
OF THE SAGEBRUSH PLANTATION
WHY CASINO WORKERS
NEED UNIONS
Reagan-appointed
judge denies Nevada casino workers class action status in four
casino secondhand smoking cases
Civil
rights leaders seek easing of work card requirements
Las Vegas Strip officials repeal work card rules
Columnist
Steve Sebelius: City of Las Vegas should do the same
Columnist
John L. Smith: Work card requirements nonsensical
BROKEN
PROMISES -- Dealers complain after voting down union
Former
LV Mayor Jan Jones continues doing Harrah's dirty work
Harrah's-Reno
bartender, fired for refusing to wear makeup,
featured by FOX News, Mother Jones, People & Oprah
Darlene
Jespersen prepares to sue Harrah's
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to Oprah Winfrey's
Oxygen Channel website to e-mail your opinion and join
the Oxygen.com Harrah's BOYCOTT
SEE
NAKED FLESH WITHOUT MAKEUP
Exclusive Harrah's personal best photos
Coming soon to a picket line and courtroom near you
FLASH! Ex-Harrah's bartender Darlene
Jespersen wins
Mother Jones Magazine HELLRAISER Award
REAL
HEELS -- Harrah's implements "personal best" appearance
standards, including spike heels, amid protests in Atlantic City
The
Press of Atlantic City editorially trashes Harrah's cookie-cutter
employee appearance program
Fired
Hilton worker wins multi-million dollar judgment
LONG
BATTLE WON --- Reno Hilton signs six-year contract
with security guards union
NEWS ROUNDUP -- THE CRUEL ECONOMICS
OF ERGONOMICS
ERGO, YOU CAN JUST GO DIE FOR ALL WE CARE --
Disposable workers worth more dead than alive
Casinos
fight new OSHA standards for dealers
An
ergonomically & typically morally obtuse LVRJ editorial
GOP
U.S. Senators fight to kill ergonomics standard
ERGO
VOTE — Nevada delegation splits along party lines
Senators
split -- Reid supports, Ensign opposes worker protection
CASINO
DEALERS
LOST
TRIBE OF THE SAGEBRUSH PLANTATION
TWU
charters new Local 721 for Las Vegas casino dealers
Nevada
State AFL-CIO promises support
Casino dealers union begins new round of negotiations
with hotels
BURIED
TREASURE -- Treasure Island dealers vote down union
AARRGH!
Treasure Island loss leaves union with 3 wins, 8 losses
Hotel
industry spends millions on union busters
to beat dealers out of pennies
Excalibur
Hotel-Casino dealers vote against union
UNION
WINS L.V. FRONTIER HOTEL CASINO DEALERS ELECTION
Co-dependent
card dealers vote down unionization
at New York, New York Hotel-Casino on Vegas Strip
Las
Vegas Strip resorts bust out
two more casino dealer unionization votes
LAS
VEGAS TROPICANA CASINO DEALERS VOTE UNION-YES
TWU
wins LV Tropicana dealers vote by 2-1 margin
Las
Vegas Hilton dealers vote against unionizing
Union files federal charges against Monte Carlo
LV
Monte Carlo casino dealers vote against union
Longtime
Nevada journalist defends casino workers
Management
drives casino dealers toward union
Station
Casinos fires workers at newly-acquired
Las Vegas Fiesta and Santa Fe properties
Black
casino dealer spat upon, employer does nothing
STATEWIDE
NEWS ROUNDUP
EXCLUSIVE
— Wal-Mart sues to reverse Reno superstore loss
State gaming control board rumored behind casino tax increase
bill
Gaming lobbyists play two-faced Janus in January
Why Dubya blew out his 2nd choice for labor secretary
Lucky electrical worker goes home
Young
electrical worker survives 105-foot, 10-story fall
CONTEMPTIBLE
CONSTRUCTION TEMP SERVICES —
The Las Vegas labor coyotes
SINK
& SWIM — Questionable pool loans spawn senate subpoena
Investigators
call for contractors board audit
Clark
County School District considers project labor agreements
Tentative deal made
to avoid northwestern Nevada garbage strike Teamsters
vote UPDATE--CONTRACT APPROVED
High
court sides with worker -- Ruling returns denial of heart attack
benefits to District Court despite state law
Court
workers seeking union affiliation
Leader
of fledging LV cab driver organization fired
BARBWIRE:
Election theft Y2K — 1988 warnings ignored
Punchcard voting disasters are old hat in Nevada
IMPORTANT INFORMATION for laid off Comstock Hotel workers
Reno Hilton signs 6-year contract with
security guards
Labor
Commissioner sets sweeping prevailing wage hearings
Nevada
Assembly minority leader
calls for abolition of prevailing wage law
Building
trades officials defend prevailing wage law
Danny
Evans, longtime labor leader, dies at 50
Leslie
proposes statewide work card law
Las
Vegas casino high heel policies targeted
Workers'
alliance pumped up over high heels
Income
study: Gap widens between rich, poor in Nevada
Aladdin
Resort rises from ashes, magically greeted with picket lines
Hazards
on the Job
Road
construction zones: lives on the line
Las
Vegas casino dealers tough to organize
The
fight over Right to Work
NEWS ROUNDUP:
NUKED WORKERS-- AFTERGLOW OF INJUSTICE
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Las Vegas Sun editorial praises congressional action
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$50,000 compensation available for uranium workers and nuclear
test downwinders
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Las Vegas nuked worker center opens
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Labor Secretary Chao opens first of 10 centers for nuked workers
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Nuked workers again vent at feds
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SINS OF THE FATHER -- Children of nuked workers denied benefits
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Feds: Nuked workers will just have to wait a little longer for
help
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Feds delay nuked workers' compensation again and again
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LAS VEGAS SUN decries cutoff of federal money
for nuked uranium workers and downwinders
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Dubya's labor secretary kisses off nuked Nevada workers
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Ex-nuke workers get tested
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Nuked workers vent anger at DOE
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Sick workers upset that nuke compensation plan isn't for all
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NUKED AND NEGLECTED: Last-minute change in bill bars most diseased
and dying Nevada Test Site workers from compensation
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Las Vegas Review-Journal praises congressional action
THE
FLAGGER MOMS OF ORANGE CONE HELL
