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THIS PAGE Updated 8-2-2008

Breaking News

$4.8 billion Echelon Resort construction project shuttered until at least 2011; 800 LV workers lose their jobs.


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Nevada AFL-CIO Executive Secretary-Treasurer Danny Thompson has put out an emergency call for last-minute entries for the 2008 Arnold-Jones-Evans Scholarship Essay Contest. Three $3,000 scholarships are at stake for 2008 high school graduates who are children of current union members and plan to attend an accredited school this fall. Click here for complete info and entry forms.

UPDATE 7-29-2008
Deadline extended to August 6
Hurry

Barbwire.TV gets first interview with University Regent Howard Rosenberg after ban from ballot
Nevada Supreme Court upholds term limits, boots Rosenberg and Woodbury

Vote for Rosenberg anyway, dammit
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune / 7-27-2008

Tahoe Shakespeare Festival musicians haven't been paid after termination
Non-union rats imported from New York City.
UPDATE: Settlement in the offing, union and management differ on who did what, with which and to whom (surprise, surprise)

Reno-Sparks-Washoe Charter cable channel 16
2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 GMT/CUT/SUT


The Dean's List

   The Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.

RENO NEWS & REVIEW, 11-9-2006

Skinny dipping with the devil
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 7-20-2008

Tad Dunbar and Barry Bonds:
Comeback Kids

Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 7-13-2008

Time wounds all heels
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 7-6-2008

barbwire.tv EXCLUSIVE
Teamsters talks with Reno-Sparks bus system collapse, union basically dared to strike

George Carlin 1937-2008

Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 6-29-2008

Freedom loving racists
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 6-22-2008

Teamsters reject Reno-Sparks bus system contract proposal 130-2
RTC caves, returns to bargaining table
Read the plantation proposal for yourself
Union files charges of illegal unfair labor practices

Nevada: Consumer rip off pioneer
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 6-15-2008

Ringers & zingers down in flames
The end of a pseudo-Democrat's political career
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 6-8
-2008

Reno-Sparks NAACP asks that Regional Transportation Commission finally honor Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday
Talks stalled, federal mediator called in, contract expires June 12
Negotiations resume June 7 — Foreign-owned managers offer a pay cut disguised as a one percent per year raise

McCain draws union and gasoline consumer protestors in Boston

One night only: Civil rights legend returns to Reno as living history with 1968 video from Charles Kuralt

Pat Baker on Barbwire.TV

Southern Nevada Building & Construction Trades Council strikes Las Vegas Strip MGM/Mirage Project City Center at midnight, June 3, 2008, over worker safety concerns

History and serendipity
Barbwire 6-1-2008

Crane worker killed on massive Las Vegas Strip project
Second death at CityCenter this year

Las Vegas Review-Journal 6-1-2008

RENO — Washoe Med/Renown nurses plan June 11 protest vigil against stonewalling, union-busting management

Tale of the greasy goose
The neverending story of the rigged game at the gas pump
5-25
-2008

Reno-Sparks NAACP asks that Regional Transportation Commission finally honor Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday
Talks stalled, federal mediator called in, contract expires June 12

Check the snowfall report for hell!
Save Mart Supermarkets recommends that its workers unionize

Petition oblivion and snow in hell
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 5-18
-2008

Read My Lips Roulette
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 5-11-2008

Las Vegas Musicians Union leader Thom Pastor seriously injured by drunk driver

May 4, 1970-May 4, 2008
The 38th anniversary of Kent State

List, lust and political roulette
Barbwire/Sparks Tribune 5-4-2008
Workers Memorial Day
Déjà vu all over again

Laughing gods, Easter bunnies and black whales
Barbwire 4-27-2008

Guns, gods, gays, gringos, graybeards & gushers
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 4-20-2008

Monopolists and mass malpractice
Gasoline price fixing and greasing pols to exploit the sick

Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 4-13-2008

Washoe Med: Renowned for Ripping Us Off
Inhospitable Reno hospital terrorizes its nurses for daring to picket for an hour.
Barbwire Special Web Edition 4-10-2008

Take it to the streets today!

Who's on Worst?
Nurses organize, governor Hooverized, regents piratize
Is anybody running this show?

Nurses schedule April 10 demonstration in Reno
Barbwire 4-6
-2008

This day in history: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King., Jr., assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.,
April 4, 1968

Three days of commemorating King in Reno, April 4-6, 2008
Remembering King by forgetting him

UAW and other unions protest unfair trade at Reno General Motors warehouse
Reno Gazette-Journal 3-29-2008
Sign the petition online

César Chávez Day brings labor and management together in Reno
Annual event at Circus Circus March 31 will also bring together César Chávez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
U-News 3-27-2008

Week of the Giants Begins
United Auto Workers demonstrate while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and César Chávez offer advice
Barbwire 3-23-2008

Giants will walk among us again
Barbwire 3-16-2008

Annual César Chávez Celebration
Circus Circus Reno — March 31, 2008

Former LV labor leader Frank Caine dies

Colorado right-to-work-for-less proposal on the ropes as residents learn the facts about fire-at-will
In These Times 3-14-2008

Longtime St. Mary's hospital employee
"Fired for cancer?" in a fire-at-will state

A not very Christian tale

Reno News & Review Editorial 3-13
-2008

Fired for cancer?
Reno News & Review 3-6
-2008

Right-to-work / fire-at-will law plagues Nevada for more than half a century

Painters Union pickets Scheels store at Sparks Marina Legends development

Communications workers picket subcontractor

Republican immigration plank plunked into Democratic platform
Employer and employee sanctions spark opposition

STRIKE LOOMS CLOSER
Culinary Union pushes for injunction against Reno Grand Sierra

New Paycheck Deception Initiatives Filed

New Barbwire Traveling salesman syndrome
Taxpayers don't even get kissed afterward
Prevailing wages threatened statewide
Union-busting ABC state senator busted for conflicts
3-9
-2008

BARBWIRE: The Wages of Sin
"My doctor killed me."
2-24-2008

Rats, fat cats and Olympic Kool-Aid

NEW— laketahoedealers.com

Barbwire.TV
2-10
-2008

The seven-second solution
Featuring awfully waffley Wallerie
Barbire/Sparks Tribune/2-3
-2008

U.S. union membership rises for the first time in 25 years

From Poor Denny's Almanac
On Jan. 28, 1968, responding to a complaint filed by the American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees, the National Labor Relations Board upheld a hearing examiner's decision ordering some Las Vegas casinos to rehire 42 casino workers, halt anti-union activities, and post notices telling workers they would no longer be penalized for union activity.

Paying for our sins
Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 1-27-2008

The disappointment tango
Ditchdiggers and the danse macabre
NBC orders affiliates off the air to dump Kucinich from debate
Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 1-20-2008

Clinton and Romney win their party presidential caucuses in Nevada

PRESIDENTIAL CAUCUS CAPERS

Full Frontal Hillary
Sen. Clinton was absolutely correct that it took a president to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The attacks against her are based on historical revisionism. MORE

BARBWIRE: The crying game
UPDATED: MONDAY 1-14-2008 8:42 p.m. PST, 04:42 1-15-2008 GMT/SUT/CUT
Breaking News: Judge orders Dennis Kucinich included in Jan. 15 Las Vegas NBC presidential debate

Culinary Union endorses Obama
Teachers union sues Democrats to help Hillary
Special "at large precincts" for on-duty hotel workers challenged

Tim Russert: Culinary Local 226 being pressured to back off from presidential endorsement

Statewide Communications Workers Union endorses Edwards


Harrah's threats of major litigation force Caesars' new dealers' union to move website
Dealers at LV Flamingo and other Harrah's-owned resorts report aggressive new management campaign of fear and intimidation

BARBWIRE: Blasts from the past
1-6-2008

NLRB judge finds Wynn guilty of breaking labor law

BARBWIRE: Time to launch
12-30-2007

Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year: The Immigrant
12-29-2007

Construction worker dies in North Las Vegas gas line rupture

Clark County School District denies pushing students toward military enlistment as part of career counseling

PAUL KRUGMAN: Obama vs. Unions
Although the movement is a shadow of its former self,
unions still matter politically.

New York Times 12-24-2007 / Free registration may be required

UPDATE 12-23-2007 3:06 p.m. PST, 23:06 GMT/SUT/CUT – Casino dealers at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip have voted to unionize by 380 to 128 of a landslide of 75% " yes" to 25%" no." Ironically, this is the same percentage won by the Transportation Workers Union earlier this year from dealers at the Wynn-Las Vegas. The bargaining group consists of about 565 employees.
MUY BUENO. MAZELTOV. BENETHICA. CONGRATULATIONS!


Nevada jobless rate rises to highest level since 2003
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-22-2007

Las Vegas Valley housing still in the basement
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-22-2007

Nevada Culinary Union leader D. Taylor:
Revoke Tropicana gaming license

EXCLUSIVE!
Barbwire spy at the Battle of Waterloo reports that uncommitteds will probably break for John Edwards on Iowa Caucus night

12-17-2007

HOT OFF DEPRESS: Local small businesses fear big box kibosh
Gov. Jim the Dim swallows Cabellyup Kool-Aid
CORY FARLEY: If you have a favorite outdoor store in town, you might say goodbye. It will be hard for anybody to compete with this.

Nov. 7 downtown Reno event scheduled in support of the Jena 6. See RenoSparksNAACP.org for details.

Blackguards and gold stars
Full frontal Hillary, Part Deux
12-16-2007

The last picture show
Shamelessly caucusing while Jim the Dim is cutting
No strike at Grand Sierra Reno this month
CWA Local 9413 endorses John Edwards

12-9-2007

MORE BARBWIRE
Christmas stockings 2007: Full frontal Hillary
12-2-2007
Mae West, moonhowlers, poets and anarchists
11-25-2007
Keep hope alive
11-18-2007
Follytix for fun and prophet
11-11-2007
BARBWIRE: Dull anger

11-4-2007

The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983

SPARKS TRIBUNE 10-28-2007

The cure for what ails us
Fired Harrah's bartender's lipstick lawsuit featured in award-winning new Hollywood documentary
BARBWIRE 10-21-2007

Getting away with murder
BARBWIRE 10-7-200
7

Burning down the house
In Reno, corporate welfare comes before fire safety

BARBWIRE 9-30-2007

Former Nevada State AFL-CIO leader Evans dies * Latino workers jailed after La Migra busts McDonald's * Farm workers gassed in Yerington * Renown/Washoe Med nurses win union vote * Reno City Council votes Cabela's $34 million in corporate welfare

BARBWIRE: Comeuppance for corporate welfare queens
UNION ELECTIONS AND STRIKES SPREAD ACROSS THE LAND
GOWABUNGA!
Renown/Washoe Med nurses vote, UAW strikes, Reno City Council rolls over and plays dead
SPECIAL INTERNET EDITION 9-25-2007

BOXING PANDORA
DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 9-23-2007

BARBWIRE: Culinary negotiates, nurses agitate, both may vacate and demonstrate
DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 9-16-2007

NEW! Health Care War Room
NevadaLabor.com Exclusive
First time online:
Washoe County Grand Jury Report detailing the scandals and skullduggery which resulted in the theft of Reno's public hospital

HOT AUGUST STRIKE! — SPFPA LOCAL 1010 security guards man picket lines in front of the Reno Grand Sierra nee Reno Hilton during the 1996 strike which resulted in the first security guard union contract at a Nevada resort in more than three decades. The Little Union That Could will stand with its brothers and sisters as the Culinary Union prepares to strike the Grand Sierra in 2007.

TOLJASO
UPDATE: August 22, 2007, 10:59 p.m. PDT, 05:59 Aug. 23 GMT/SUT/CUT
$5 billion Arab oil money deal may fuel Culinary/MGM-Mirage contract settlement
Union and MGM cut a deal
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-23-2007
Which means the union can now focus on this:
Culinary union strike vote

At a Reno hotel facing a possible strike, Biden and Richardson promise to support unions
SPARKS TRIBUNE 8-23-2007
Richardson out-promises Biden

NEW BARBWIRE: On 9/11, don't contemplate — agitate!
The new Confederate States of America
9-9-2007

Clinton and Dodd diss AFL-CIO convention, Culinary union sets strike vote at two northern Nevada hotels

Laborers Union Local 169 demonstrates against low wages at Atlantis Hotel-Casino in Reno

BARBWIRE
LABOR DAY 2007: Labors of Love
9-2-2007
Grand Designs
8-26-2007
Going, going, gone
Labor dispatches and Hillary scratches
8-19-2007
Party like it's 1929
LV strike fever may spread north
Exclusive
Presidential candidates to address Nevada State AFL-CIO convention in Reno
Union-busting Reno hospital offers excuses for rape and pillage
8-12-2007