Hospitality Industry News

"If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." — Travus T. Hipp, 1982

International labor boycott of Blue Man Group announced
Subway settles case of employee illegally fired for HIV status
Las Vegas CityLife 12-29-2006

Nevada lawmaker wants study of immigrant economic impact
Recent Texas research showed huge benefit
Las Vegas Sun 12-27-2006

Gomorrah South judge practices judicial dentistry and removes teeth from voter-passed public smoking ban

Blue Man Group's dispute with unions spills onto Venetian sidewalk

TIPSY TIP TRUCE TIPPING TOWARD TOPPLING

National Labor Relations Board issues complaint against Wynn for unfair labor practices against casino dealers
Las Vegas Review-Journal 1-4-2007

Another tip-sharing protest vs. Wynn, but his own dealers won't show, fearing retaliation
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-30-2006

LV casino dealers demonstrate against Wynn tip skim

BARBWIRE Stiffed on the Strip
Wynn pokes a hole in a Picasso after sticking it to his dealers
From Las Vegas CityLife

Only a matter of time before tip-pooling spreads to other jobs?

Dealers suing Wynn hire nationally prominent labor lawyer

Las Vegas Sun Editorial: IRS commissioner promises to make good on the agency's promise to tip earners

Workers get break on IRS audits

IRS to honor agreement with tip earners
Culinary Union remains skeptical of IRS promise

NO RETALIATION: Dealers who sued hotel over tip policy are welcome at their jobs according to Wynn resort management

Tips and taxes: Dealers sue Wynn over new tip sharing policy

Columnist Cory Farley: A tip is a reward, not a bribe

Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial: Tip-sharing legal, but is it fair?

Gov. Guinn's labor commissioner says Wynn tips policy is legal

IRS, workers square off at tip poker

Dealers fuming over Wynn tip taking

Steve Wynn: Tip taker

Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial: Take a look at casino tip sharing

JOHN L. SMITH: Angry dealers know their jobs teeter on casinos' bottom lines

Tip switch called "ironclad"

Dealers baffled by order to share tips

Las Vegas Sun columnist Jeff Simpson breaks down the reorganization of the pay scale among employees on the casino floor at Wynn Las Vegas, which Steve Wynn called 'upside down'

Columnist JOHN L. SMITH: Dealers angry, but Wynn's tip-sharing change might spread

Wynn alters rules on tips

TIP INCOME DISPUTE: IRS audits anger casino workers

Nevada Governor: A deal is a deal

Here's a tip: IRS might not honor deal
Culinary Union claims double-cross in toke-reporting program
By Jeff German

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In search of the mythological(?) $100k a year valet parker

Questions raised about FBI methods of obtaining data on resort guests

State minimum wage proposal pits unions against restaurant group

Health Care and Workplace:
Tip earners at center of national policy debates

Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith: Unwillingness to get behind homeless trust fund is bad business

Freedom of speech for strippers stifled, freedom to smoke for smokers suspenseful, freedom to sexually harass at NDOT nixed

Democrats, labor say GOP bill will hurt tip earners
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-3-2006
Jim Day Cartoon
Sen. Reid, Culinary Union denounce sham GOP minimum wage bill
Las Vegas Sun 8-2-2006
MORE ON MINIMUM WAGE

BREAKING NEWS: Culinary/PLAN Reno initiative petition fails
Not enough signatures in campaign vs. Station Casinos

ROAD WARRIOR: Old Vegas lives in shady taxicab practices
SAVE THE CABBIES WAR ROOM

Homeowners say they are being pressured to sell
Station Casinos buying property in Las Vegas Strip area

Reno Hilton settles suit
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on July 18, 2006, that it settled for $125,000 a case against the Reno Hilton involving four women who reported sexual harassment, including one who was badly beaten by female coworkers.

How to make sure long-simmering efforts to unionize your hotel finally boil over: Reno Peppermill Hotel-Casino fires two Latina U.S. citizens for immigration rally protest

The oppressed become the oppressors,
the reservation becomes the plantation
Tribes and Republican congressmen want Indian casinos exempt from National Labor Relations Act
Attempt to overturn 2004 court decision

HOWARD DEAN HEADLINES NEVADA LABOR POLITICAL CONVENTION

A DAY WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS: Las Vegas Strip casinos and Culinary Union push petition alternative to MayDay walkout

Sex workers demonstrate for equal rights and protections
at national convention in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-14-2006
Sluts are people, too
Las Vegas CityLife 7-20-2006

     Reno trade unionistas file casino corporate welfare remedy initiative

Las Vegas Sun op-ed: Nevada Culinary Union leader D. Taylor calls the national AFL-CIO split a wakeup call for a barely visible national labor movement

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING...AND TRACKING
Harrah's-Rio's use of radio tags on servers causes concern

BARBWIRE: DIVORCED BEDMATES
National trauma of AFL-CIO split could have been avoided right here in Nevada
EXCLUSIVE: A story never reported until now
7-31-2005

Cabbies: The Most Dangerous Job in Nevada
How many more have to die before in-car video is mandated?
A NEW NevadaLabor.com War Room

Harrah's acquisition of Imperial Palace gives the casino behemoth room to grow and dominates the choicest real estate in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip

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Follytix 2006

Columnist Erin Neff: Corruption was the big 2006 Nevada political story
John L. Smith and Steve Sebelius agree

Follytix 2008: Vilsack visits Vegas

2008 Petition? Nevada in anti-affirmative action group's sights

Gomorrah South judge practices judicial dentistry and removes teeth from voter-passed public smoking ban

LAS VEGAS SUN: In LV, those who crossed labor were losers

RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL EDITORIAL: Legislature was the big election loser
Public had to decide on matters legislature refused to act on

Update: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006, 12:41 p.m. PST — The Mahatma sez to bring a broom and camera to your polling place and he'll make you famous. Go to MichaelMoore.com.
Be well. Raise hell.

Update: Monday, Nov. 6, 2006, 1:35 p.m. PST — Killer investigative reporter Greg Palast says the fix is already in. Read How They Stole the Midterm Election and what you you can do about it.

NEW BARBWIRES
The wages of Raggio — Payback time
Special web edition 11-6-2006
Enough, already: Sen. Maurice Washington's outright lying to the Sparks Tribune is the extremely ultimatest, worst best damnedest very-dead-last freakin' straw!
SPARKS TRIBUNE 11-5-2006

From Poor Denny's Almanac
In 1904, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
was criticized for opposing injured worker insurance
102 years later, nothing's changed. That's conservative!
Sen. Maurice Washington, R-Sparks, would understand

Sparks GOP senator fails in attempt to censor opposition TV

SHORT AND NOT SO SWEET
All the reasons you'll ever need to vote for John Emerson
over madcap Sen. Maurice Washington
including Washington's current move to place intelligent design theocracy
into Nevada schools (Are we back in Kansas, Toto?)
Reno News & Review 10-26-2006

SO MUCH FOR NON-PARTISAN LOCAL FOLLYTIX
DEMOCRATS FORM AN OPPOSITION BLOC vs. RENO CITY COUNCIL INCUMBENTS

NEW BARBWIRES
The Lady in the Red Dress
The Barbwire Nevada Day classic
Stiffed on the Strip
From Las Vegas CityLife
Reasons for not voting early and not voting at all
Plus: Response to a reader regarding ballot questions
Jim Gibbons v. Dina Titus on cutting Nevada retirement benefits
See and hear them for yourself.

Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., named "worst person in the world"
on MSNBC's The Countdown with Keith Olbermann
(and not for the reasons which first come to mind)

A LITTLE POLITICAL CSI ON KTVN TV-2
AFTER THE NEVADA GUBERNATORIAL DEBATE OF OCT. 17, 2006
Oct. 18, 2006

Labor leader files IRS charges against Sparks state senator

GUB GLUB GLUB

NEW POLL: Senate race close, guv's a tossup

RENO (Sept. 25) — State Sen. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, recovered from a fox paw at the beginning to wipe the floor with Rep. Jim Gibbons, R-Nev., in Monday's gubernatorial debate at the University of Nevada-Reno. Stay tuned to the Barbwire for details and fallout. For well-rounded coverage, read the following stories by experienced journalists, but watch the Barbwire for some new wrinkles.
Carson City Nevada Appeal's coverage of the debate
Reno Gazette-Journal: Gibbons-Titus in personal slugfest
Titus slams Gibbons' record, Gibbons says she's an expensive date
The Daily Sparks Tribune's take on the story
All of the above appeared on 9-26-2006
Ralston: What they said doesn't matter unless regurgitated as smear TV spots
Las Vegas Sun 9-27-2006
Voters deserve the truth — Titus and Gibbons advocated lots of programs in debate but gave short shrift about how to pay for them and left many others unmentioned
Reno Gazette-Journal editorial 9-27-2006
Tough decisions needed: Candidates must talk about burgeoning federal deficit
Despite a claim by gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Jim Gibbons at Monday night's debate that Republicans are cutting the federal deficit, the budget of the U.S. is out of control, unsustainable and about to explode.
Reno Gazette-Journal editorial 9-28-2006
Erin Neff: Gibbons won, but little was settled
Jane Ann Morrison: Titus won the battle of the boo birds

POLL: Jim Gibbons (R) leads Dina Titus (D) by 9 points and is beating her in Las Vegas and among female voters statewide

Health care benefits for newly hired state workers divide gubernatorial candidates Titus and Gibbons

Like Kansas and Arizona, can Nevada elect a female Democratic governor?

Wall Street Journal poll shows dead heats
in Nevada races for governor and U.S. Senate

Las Vegas Sun reporter, probably a flatlander, writes a long piece on Titus v. Gibbons and their differences — without even considering the glaring similarities between the gubernatorial nominees
Las Vegas Sun 8-17-2006
Reno Gazette-Journal does the same story on Aug. 20. Compare.

Wal-Mart telling its workers how to vote

Carpenters picket downtown Reno condo conversion
Anti-union astroturf media campaign's Wal-Mart links exposed

Early presidential primary will bring Nevada clout in national elections

Angle may ask for recount of congressional race
Sharron Angle of Reno said Wednesday that she is considering asking for a recount after losing by 428 votes Tuesday night in the statewide 2nd Congressional District's Republican primary.
Reno Gazette-Journal 8-17-2006
New York-based PAC provided almost all of Angle's funding and came close to buying its own Nevada congressman

For election results, go to these links to Nevada newspapers & blogs

Wal-Mart targets Nevada for "voter education"
Eye on Election, Democrats Run as Wal-Mart Foe

Washoe County voters turned away at polls
K-Mart Taxes Groceries
BARBWIRE special web edition for the Ides of August
Updated with dispatches from the trenches 8-17-2006

Sun Valley Marine dies in Iraq
An 18-year-old Marine from Sun Valley died Thursday while engaged in combat operations in Iraq, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Reno Gazette-Journal 8-12-2006
BARBWIRE: Roll Over and Play Dead
Daily Sparks Tribune 8-13-2006
Henderson soldier killed in Iraq Aug. 9
Associated Press 8-15-2006

LATEST POLITICAL HOT COPY AND NEW POLLS

DONKEYKONGS DECIDE TO DENOUNCE
Connecticut Yankee Loses His Ass.
Lieberman responds with rump movement.
New York Times 8-9-2006
Free registration may be required
Lieberman gets spit out:
Democrats must advance firm positions
Las Vegas Review-Journal Editorial 8-10-2006

Furriners from New Hampshire and flatlanders from Iowa trash Nevada as not ready for primary time
Politics for white people just like the founding fathers wanted it
Las Vegas Sun Washington Bureau 8-8-2006

Yuk 'em!
Comedians led by Lewis Black and satirical publications such as The Onion (just bought by the owners of CBS and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) have supplanted the Democratic Party in responding to the raucus, racist, ridiculously reactionary right. Cool.
Las Vegas Sun 7-23-2006

Yuk 'em, Part Deux
BARBWIRE BLAST FROM THE PAST
Columnist CORY FARLEY: Time to bring back NAGPAC?
Reno Gazette-Journal 8-1-2006

Redress vs. Undress: High-profile petitions rife with potentially unintended consequences and furriner's money

Wide-ranging November ballot questions explained

Nevada Supremes schedule hearings on ballot question questions

Initiative PAC money detailed

Political Writer ERIN NEFF: Money backing tax and condemnation initiatives isn't from Nevada
The only thing green in the grass-roots efforts behind two statewide ballot initiatives is the flow of cash from a New York City millionaire. His name is Howard Rich…
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-13-2006

TASC initiative sees dip
Minimum wage, eminent domain support remains strong
Las Vegas Review-Journal poll 8-10-2006
Las Vegas Review-Journal: Judge rules TASC petition will go on November ballot; opponents move it to the Supreme Court
Carson City Nevada Appeal coverage of the above
The Reno Gazette-Journal's story
All of the latter dated 8-8-2006
Government is not the problem, Bob Beers' petition is, so let's fight
Steve Sebelius, Las Vegas CityLife 8-3-2006
Labor leader files to have TASC petition removed from ballot
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-29-2006
Rebecca Zisch: Typo Personality — Trashing TASC's tacky taskmaster
Las Vegas CityLife 7-27-2006
Republican officials pronounce school-destroying initiative fit for ballot
Reno Gazette-Journal/Associated Press 7-22-2006
Organized labor fights the school destroyer petition
What happens if the fastest-growing state commits fiscal suicide?
A State of Decline: What TASC Would Mean for Nevada
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
TASC opponents seize on two negative analyses of ballot question
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-20-2006

Condemning condemnation
TROJAN HORSE: Two Clark County commissioners say eminent domain ballot question loaded with perks for lawyers; creates new class of lawsuits Eminent domain initiative heads to court
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-8-2006
Eminent domain petition organizers file opposition to lawsuit
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-1-2006
Lawsuit filed to kill anti-eminent domain petition
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-21-2006

LATEST POLITICAL HOT COPY

Judge Saitta defeats Justice Becker for the state's highest court
Becker thus becomes the third incumbent Nevada supreme court justice unseated in the past 100 years (Patrick McCarran — 1918, Noel Manoukian — 1984)

Internal poll finds support for marijuana initiative
if term "legalization" is not included

Las Vegas Review-Journal political reporter ERIN NEFF:
It doesn't look good for Nevada Democrats this fall

Small county perspective: Heller won GOP congressional nomination
in Cow Counties remote from major market TV hatchet jobs
The looming equalizer of the sagebrush satellite dish?
Gardnerville Record-Courier 8-18-2006

Several viewers say Hunt won gubernatorial debate
HAGAR: Hunt glommed GOP gub gab gig

Free-for-all at Reno City Hall:
GOP gubernatorial candidates break the 11th Commandment
The Las Vegas Review-Journal's take on the debate in Reno

Gubernatorial campaign money detailed

GOP gubernatorial debate in Reno: Will Hunt endorse Beers?
Reno Gazette-Journal 8-11-2006
New poll results bring surprises days before primary election
Several reports by the Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-11-2006

Letter clouds gubernatorial candidate Gibson's explanation for violating conflict of interest regarding mining claims vote
Columnist John L. Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-26-2006

NEW POLL: Angle catches Heller in Nevada
statewide congressional district GOP primary

U.S. Senate candidate Jack Carter speaks at Temple Emanu-El in Reno
NEW POLL: Ensign holds big lead over Carter in U.S. Senate race

Immigration, education key issues for minorities

Sparks council candidate files ethics complaint against incumbent

Contentious Comstock candidates night

Freedom of speech for strippers stifled, freedom to smoke for smokers suspenseful, freedom to sexually harass at NDOT nixed

State treasurer race: straights, kinkoids, pimps & thieves
Las Vegas Sun 8-6-2006
Treasurer's and controller's offices should not be merged
BARBWIRE, DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 12-5-2004
State treasurer throws hissy fit after exposure of sweetheart deal with GOP crony
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-20-2006

Jon Ralston: Doctors' lobby never gets enough
DoctorLawyerWatch.com

THE BARE MINIMUM

Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek, in turnaround, rules that nonprofits employing the disabled are exempt from new minimum wage law
IRS considers piece-workers as subcontractors, thus so does he
Carson City Nevada Appeal's take on the above

Minimum wage hike affects some small Fallon area businesses

Gov. Dudley Do-Right approves piecemeal emergency regulations to implement minimum wage hike

New minimum wage law has gray areas

LAS VEGAS SUN Letter: Wage gap keeps segregation alive

Labor commissioner: non-profits not exempt from minimum wage law
Las Vegas Review-Journal
12-9-2006

Labor commissioner making emergency regulations to deal with new minimum wage law; many questions unanswered
Las Vegas Review-Journal
12-9-2006

Columnist Erin Neff: Potential unintended consequences of Nevada minimum wage hike
Las Vegas Review-Journal
11-30-2006

Low-wage workers see two wins ­ state and national

POLL: Voters favor minimum wage increase

Nevada minimum wage proposal pits unions against restaurant group

Health Care and Workplace:
Tip earners at center of national policy debates

Federal GOP minimum wage bill was a bad one
Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial 8-7-2006
A bill with baggage: Federal measure would negate
Nevada minimum wage ballot question
Las Vegas Sun editorial 8-4-2006
Taking back their tips: GOP bill would devastate Nevada tip earners
Las Vegas Sun editorial, 8-3-2006
Democrats, labor say GOP bill will hurt tip earners
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-3-2006
Jim Day Cartoon
Sen. Reid, Culinary Union denounce sham GOP minimum wage bill
Las Vegas Sun 8-2-2006

Molly Ivins: The latest congressional shuck on the minimum wage

AP: Minimum-wage hikes getting state-by-state push
Reno Gazette-Journal 7-18-2006

Minimum wage at 51-year low in 2006
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
GRAPHANALYSIS: Actual value of the minimum wage since 1938
Oregon State University

Why the GOP tried to keep the minimum wage initiative off Nevada's ballot
BARBWIRE by BARBANO 11-8-2004

Gannett News Service wants to interview minimum wage workers

DOWN AND DIRTY DEALINGS
GEOFF SCHUMACHER: Election year politics caused Clark County Commission to kill curbside recycling project
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-13-2006
ERIN NEFF: Recycle this — Dirty LV trash franchise redux
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-3-2006
Something is Rotten, Part Deux
Republic Services fails to honor 2035 franchise extension deal but Clark County Commission says the company is not in breach
Las Vegas Sun 8-6-2006

MORE YET
BallotBoxing.US
BARBWIRE BY BARBANO
DoctorLawyerWatch.com
Nevada Newspapers

Updated Political History of Nevada published
First new edition in 10 years

Workers' Rights & the Law

The Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City

Judge issues injunction, stops public smoking ban in Gomorrah South
Arguments scheduled Dec. 19

BARBWIRE: Use conservative tobacco lobby's "unconstitutional takings" argument to knock out right-to-work-for-less laws
Daily Sparks Tribune 12-10-2006

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Ex-NLRB Commissioner: Why labor law isn’t working
SF Chronicle Op-ed 11-21-2006

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING WAGES!
Nevada Supreme Court tries to gut state prevailing wage law
BARBWIRE SPECIAL EDITION: COURT CONTRADICTS ITSELF, MAY HELP LABOR

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Carson City Nevada Appeal 10-1-2006
Rebel without a clue: Nevada Labor Commissioner admits that state actually
has some laws protecting workers. Who'dathunkit?
(If you don't get the irony of a Guinn appointee admitting that workers actually have some rights, you just haven't been paying attention.)

Big talk, little action: Day labor debate stirs passions, but solutions remain elusive
Las Vegas day laborers assaulted, robbed, one murdered

Jane Ann Morrison: New US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission office in Las Vegas is already very busy, mostly with male clients

Fallon Fallout: Union president fired in contentious meeting of Truckee-Carson Irrigation District board of directors
Negative comments about Mormon religion among allegations cited.
Death rides the ditches of Churchill County.
Carson City Nevada Appeal/Lahontan Valley News 8-9-2006

Fired Fallon Dead Lizard Sandwich Man fights to get his parole officer job back

State settles discrimination case
Carson City Nevada Appeal 8-9-2006

NEW BARBWIRE
Sicko: workers, renters and kids

Darlene Jespersen Harrah's Photo

BAD NEWS ON GOOD FRIDAY

    Fired Harrah's-Reno bartender Darlene Jespersen denied her day in court — Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules for Harrah's 7-4, validating her termination for refusal to wear makeup.

    POSTMORTEM ANALYSIS OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS JESPERSEN V. HARRAH'S LIPSTICK LAWSUIT: Barbwire by Barbano: Humpty Dumpty justice updated on 4-20-06 with new links and special web edition commentary, plus legal analysis by Jespersen attorney Jenny Pizer.

    (READ IT AND WEEP: Download the full decision at either link.)

Reno Hilton settles suit
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on July 18, 2006, that it settled for $125,000 a case against the Reno Hilton involving four women who reported sexual harassment, including one who was badly beaten by female coworkers.

Franz Kafka, call your office.
Clark County School District: Teaching via the web does not constitute teaching.
So how can such courses qualify for credit if there's been no teaching?
Online teachers based outside Nevada get fired despite chronic teacher shortages.
Just let mama die?
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7-24-2006

Laborers Union business manager says unions promote workplace diversity

LV SUN EDITORIAL: Day laborers merit respect and fair treatment

Day laborers not 'just city problem'

Clark County Commission considers day laborer regulations

LV Review-Journal readers debate Las Vegas day laborer center

Contract workers changing workplace

HOMEBUILDING: Flaws and effect
Defect lawsuits persist despite law passed in 2003

Reno bank branch manager fired for stopping bank robber

Thanks a heap!
Gov. Dudley Do-Right, endorsed for re-election by organized labor,
vetoes stronger state prevailing wage law
Guinn Watch — We wuz warned before we wuz robbed

Minimum wage issue goes back to voters

Laborers' Local 872 officer testifies in favor of fee-for-service legislation

Road Warrior: Legislator warns road workers and calls for action despite bill's failure
Traffic enforcement camera surveillance bill also dies

Nevada lawmakers oppose immigrant protection bill
inability to distinguish companies offering legit service from scam artists

Contractor accused of not paying taxes on $114 million in wages

Nevada lawmakers oppose immigrant protection bill
inability to distinguish companies offering legit service from scam artists

Latino protest forces Clear Channel to remove xenophobic outdoor panel
placed by white racist organization

Labor commissioner pays stranded traveling construction workers

Nevada and national AFL-CIO leaders say states must raise minimum wage,
not wait for Congress

AFL-CIO's Sweeney in LV: Unions under Bush attack

Sweeney in LV calls for battle against Bush Social Security plan

Nevada State Assembly approves minimum wage hike
Las Vegas Sun's take on the above story

Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial: Time for minimum wage to be raised

Bill seeks increase in minimum wage

Tom Stoneburner, champion of oppressed workers, dies at 60

Groups want investigation into stranded construction workers' pay dispute

Coalition shelters workers while fighting for their back wages

LV highway case has broad implications - Sierra Club wants pollution study

Immigration becomes a more important issue
as immigrants become bigger political targets

César Chávez's birthday celebrated in Reno every March 31


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2001-2002 Workers' Rights News Archive

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Editor's Note: Many of the news links on this site are from Nevada dailies. In late 2006, the Reno Gannett-Journal began nuking much of its archive. If you encounter any broken links, I encourage you to contact them and send me a copy. On the one hand, they want to build their web traffic in order to increase the price of ads. On the other hand, they are killing that very traffic. Far be it from me to reconcile the Dilbert-style motivations of an outfit for which a 38 percent net profit is not enough. If you can explain it, please enlighten me. (Before you e-mail me, please read this bulletin — AB)

Health Care

Elko nurses vote in Service Employees union

Study: Health insurance costs outstrip wages

Update on Pahrump EMT case where first responders
stand accused of felony neglect

DON'T SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM
STEVE SEBELIUS: Casinos supported anti-smoking forces in court in order to shunt compulsive smokers to big clubs

Buffy Martin-Tarbox, American Cancer Society smoking foe, expects compliance with state law

Judicial Dentistry
Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act: Anti-smoking law sustained
Follow the bouncing ball: Initiative upheld but teeth removed in Clark County; constitutional decision postponed by Gomorrah South judicial dentist
Judge puts onus on health inspectors, not cops

Casino intervention in smoking ban case could serve voter interests
Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial 12-20-2006

Southern Nevada Shocker: Major casinos join smoking battle
on the side of the ban

Nevada prison system bans indoor smoking due to passage of Q-5 initiative

Anti-smoking law's foes target enforcement flaws

Columnist JOHN L. SMITH: Compromise smoking regulation could prevent a deluge of litigation

COLUMNIST JON RALSTON:
Both sides blowing smoke in cigarette ban fight

RALSTON: Too clever by half (a pack)

Columnist John L. Smith: New anti-smoking law unfairly penalizes small operators while big boys continue fouling the air

BARBWIRE: Use conservative tobacco lobby's "unconstitutional takings" argument to knock out right-to-work-for-less laws
Daily Sparks Tribune 12-10-2006

Judge issues injunction, stops public smoking ban
in Gomorrah South
Arguments scheduled Dec. 19
RGJ.com 12-7-2006
Las Vegas Review-Journal's take on the story

LAS VEGAS SUN EDITORIAL: Crossing out the 'no'

Judge Herndon thrust into the spotlight

Gomorrah South barflies breathe easier after injunction

Legal challenge targets smoking ban

Definition of workplace remains an issue as new statewide secondhand smoke ban becomes law

Columnist JANE ANN MORRISON: Backers of pro-smoking Question 4 find too late that honesty really is the best policy

From Poor Denny's Almanac
On Nov. 5, 1904, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate
was criticized for opposing injured worker insurance
102 years later, nothing's changed. That's conservative!
Sen. Maurice Washington, R-Sparks, would understand

NEW BARBWIRE
Enough, already: Sen. Maurice Washington's outright lying to the Sparks Tribune is the extremely ultimatest, worst best damnedest very-dead-last freakin' straw!
SPARKS TRIBUNE 11-5-2006

The doctor is in, for a price
In Las Vegas, premium service is offered for an annual fee
over and above the actual treatment cost

Health care benefits for newly hired state workers divide gubernatorial candidates Titus and Gibbons

Suit claims Washoe Med violated antitrust laws

Fundraiser set for terminally ill boy ostracized
by dysfunctional health care system

Health Care and Workplace:
Tip earners at center of national policy debates

UNINSURED KIDS: Public health care coverage available
Low-income families eligible for Medicaid, state plan

Stress and easy access to drugs a dangerous mix for nurses

Nursing shortage linked to instructors' salaries

Nurses wanted: University officials and legislators set goal

Waiting through the pain:
Delays in disability cases long and getting longer
Case studies reveal claimants died while awaiting benefits they deserved

Governor Guinn announces that new Las Vegas mental health facility
will be named Rawson-Neal Hospital
Las Vegas Sun 3-24-2005

Sen. Joe Neal's 2002 universal health care proposal looks visionary in retrospect

JoeNeal.org

Breakthrough in Fallon cancer cluster research

Nevada ranks among worst in nation for citizens without access to any health care (So what else is new?)

TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY:
Damning new secondhand smoke study
4-19-2006

LV SEIU health district workers say management is unfair

PINK SLIPS AND CANDY STRIPES
Large number of St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center
workers face downsizing
Extensive 8-8-2004 Reno Gazette-Journal coverage fails to interview any workers. Go figger. Send your news and comments here. NOW.

Nevada employers: new overtime rules will have little impact
Nurses most affected

MAJOR NEVADA MEDIA IGNORE POTENTIAL CANCER CLUSTER AT OLD YERINGTON ANACONDA COPPER MINE
DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE EXCLUSIVE

LV University Medical Center considering subcontracting unionized ER MD's

LVRJ Columnist John L. Smith — Rainbow Health Centers drop
Culinary Union patients; union says health plan in great shape

The Perils of Privatization

WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING WAGES!
Nevada Supreme Court tries to gut state prevailing wage law
BARBWIRE SPECIAL EDITION: COURT CONTRADICTS ITSELF, MAY HELP LABOR

PREVAILING WAGE PREVAILS IN COURT
  Nevada Supreme Court refuses to overrule building trades unions'
prevailing wage win over Carson-Tahoe Hospital
   Judge: Carson-Tahoe Hospital must pay prevailing wage rates
   Reno Gazette-Journal version of above story
   Carson City Nevada Appeal Editorial: Wage law was clear

Carson City citizens group demonstrates against low wages
and lack of health insurance for workers at new hospital project

NevadaLabor.com warned Carson City years ago

Nursing Shortage — Condition Critical

Despite the worst staffing levels in the nation, Nevada lawmakers side with management and discard plan to impose nurse ratios
Nurses ask lawmakers for mandatory ratios

Update: Friday, Dec. 8, 2006, 4:50 p.m. PST

FROM: Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer
              Nevada State AFL-CIO
TO: All affiliates

On Dec. 5, 2006, one of our fellow union brothers, Isidro "Willie" Pelayo, was tragically killed in an on-the-job accident while employed with Perini on the Trump Tower project.

Willie was a longtime member of Laborers Local 872 and well-known and liked throughout the construction industry. Details surrounding funeral services are not yet determined.

Willie leaves behind a wife and five children. If you would like to make a donation toward the Pelayo family, you may send a check to the following:

Make your check payable to
Southern Nevada Laborers Charitable Foundation
c/o Travis, Nelson, Berry & Co., CPA's
3620 N. Rancho Drive, Suite 110
Las Vegas, NV 89130

Thank you for your support and concern.

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Cabbies: The Most Dangerous Job in Nevada

How many more have to die
before in-car video is mandated?

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Heavy trucks, deadly toll

19 percent of trucks weighed this year are overweight

Carson bypass worker injured in heavy equipment accident

LV Construction worker rescued from pile of dirt and rock

Laborers' Local 872 officer testifies in favor
of fee-for-service legislation

CONSTRUCTION SITE: Girl, 13, killed when hit by fence. Teen's brother injured when truck sends section of chain-link fence hurtling through air

Injured construction worker extracted from underground water vault

Worker who died in construction accident identified

Road Warrior: Legislator warns road workers
and calls for action despite bill's failure
Traffic enforcement camera surveillance bill also dies

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