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NEW— United Auto Workers Local 2162 (Reno GM Parts Distribution Center)
NEW— General Motors Workers Blog (international)
NEW YouthVoiceInc. — Dedicating to educating and motivating young Nevada voters to participate in politics and government. This one's starting to move nationally.
KNOW WITH WHOM YOU ARE DEALING IN STATE GOVERNMENT
Nevada
State (sort of) Labor Commissioner
A word to the wise about the labor commissioner under Republican governors: Beginning in 1999, the Guinn administration turned the labor commissioner into the business commissioner. Gov. Kenny Guinn's unqualified appointees took the legal mandate of the office — to serve worker interests — an turned it on its head. The current labor commissioner reportedly went to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and asked what they needed and what he might do for them — business interests, employers! — at the 2007 legislature.
The previous labor commissioner, Terry Johnson, who screwed over workers so badly that he got promoted, was quoted by the Las Vegas Sun's In Business Las Vegas as saying that Nevada labor laws are outdated and need revision — code for further erosion of the paper-thin rights granted to workers in this retro state. Judge the mindset for yourself:REPORTER: "Tell me about your priorities for the legislature."
TERRY JOHNSON, Director of the Department of Employment, Rehabilitation and Training: "We look forward to working with them on what we anticipate to be some discussions on immigration and its impact on the workforce. I think that's something we're going to have to address sooner rather than later for the fairness of all employees, for the fairness of all businesses. We're looking at ways to streamline the agency's operations so that we don't get bogged down in bureaucracy. One thing I've learned in my experience with labor laws is a lot of them are very old. A lot of this country's and this state's labor laws go back to the 1930s, the Depression Era. And they haven't been adjusted and modified over time. We want to look for ways that businesses can spend more time growing and less time dealing with the bureaucracy." (In Business Las Vegas, 12-8-2006)This guy really knows how to suck up to the right-wing moonhowlers by trashing the New Deal reforms of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was responsible for passage of the labor laws which the Republican Party has been quite successfully dismantling for the past half-century. (Read more about it.)
Bottom line: Learn what you can from the labor commissioner's office. Take notes. Do research. Hope they do their job in a repressive environment. But remember the advice of The Who: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Gov. Dudley Do-Right was succeeded by Jim the Dim, who won the governorship because he looks like one on TV. If anything, he will most probably be worse for workers than the casino who occupied the governor's mansion for the eight years. If you don't have a union, you may very well need a lawyer. [COLD CHILL DOWN THE SPINE TIME: Gov. Jim the Dim reappointed Mr. Johnson.]
If you are an injured worker, especially one without a union, this state agency has a fine reputation of going to bat for workers: Workers' Compensation Insurance Information and Assistance
NEVADA UNIONS
AFL-CIO
— Official website of the Nevada State AFL-CIO
American Postal Workers Union Local 936 — Reno
Bartenders' & Beverage Dispensers' Union Local 165 / Las Vegas
Northern
Nevada Building Trades Apprenticeship Programs
Communications
Workers of America Local 9413
Nevada's oldest union dating from the Washoe Typographical Union of Mark
Twain's era on the Comstock Lode. (Also the union of this site's webmacchiavellus.)
Culinary
Union 226-Las Vegas / Nevada's largest union
International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
IATSE
Local 363
International Assn. of Machinists Local Lodge 845
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 357
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245
Letter
Carriers Branch 709/Northern Nevada
Musicians
Local 368-Reno
Nevada State Education Association
Operating Engineers Local 3 (Nor. Nev.)
Operating Engineers Local 501 (So. Nev.)
NEW— Painters and Allied Trades District Council 15 (Southern Nevada/Arizona)
Plumbers and Pipefitters UA Local 525 — Las Vegas
Security,
Police and Fire Professionals of America
formerly known as the United Plant Guard Workers of America, the Little
Union that Could. UPGWA/SPFPA succeeded where much larger unions have
failed and won contracts with the virulently anti-union Park Place Entertainment
Hilton Hotels in Reno and Laughlin. Use the NevadaLabor.com
search engine for "Hilton" to compile a detailed history.
Teamsters Local 533 (Nor. Nevada/Eastern. Calif. regional site)
Teamsters Local 533 Local News @ NevadaLabor.com
NEW— Transportation Workers Union Local 721/AFL-CIO, representing casino dealers at the Wynn Las Vegas, WynnDealers.com
United Food
& Commercial Workers Local 711
NevadaLabor.com Wal-Mart
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UNIONS, STRIKE
UPDATES & RESOURCES
AFL-CIO
Communications
Workers of America the union for the information
age
Communications
Workers of America District 9
NEW General
Motors Workers Blog (international)
The
Labor Educator a strong, independent voice
within the labor movement
Labor
Notes the little Motown newspaper of union
democracy
Labour
Start worldwide labor news of the day
NATCA
Voice National Air Traffic Controllers Association
Professional
Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) Never
forget
Retail
Worker a great source for retail labor and
activism news, chat and info exchange from the modern-day incarnation
of the Industrial Workers of the World, the venerable IWW Wobblies.
International
Brotherhood of Teamsters
Union
Communication Services Labor Cartoon of
the Week and Labor Song of the Week
United
Steel Workers
University
of California-Berkeley guide to labor-oriented
internet resources; very broad-based; good sources, clearly explained.
Never
forget
Detroit Newspaper Lockout: Gannett Detroit News
and Knight-Ridder Detroit Free Press
ORGANIZING AND WORKER
RIGHTS INFORMATION
Organizing
Organized Labor
LABOR HISTORY
NevadaLabor.com Nevada Labor History (contributions most welcome)
North
West Labour History Group, Lancashire, UK (OK,so it ain't Nevada,
but they do nice work.) "The Industrial
Revolution transformed first Lancashire, then Britain and then the world,"
they state. Just as their area gave birth to the movement, Nevada spawned
trade unionism throughout the American wild, wild west. In that respect,
we indeed have a commonality.
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Utne Magazine —
The best of the alternative press and an increasing number of original
articles. They read hundreds of magazines and smaller publications so
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Out Disgruntled, the "take this job
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has apparently become disgusted and disgruntled with himself.
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