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Statewide News Roundup
JULY 16, 2006-DECEMBER 31, 2006

ARCHIVE: 2006 FRONT PAGE STORIES + JAN. 1-JUNE 30, 2006
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TODAY'S HOT LAPS

National Labor Relations Board issues complaint against Wynn for unfair labor practices against casino dealers

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

Latest Barbwires
Grandma's coffee can
Preparing to get seriously depressed

SPARKS TRIBUNE 12-31-2006
Freedom from fear: The greatest gift
SPARKS TRIBUNE 12-24-2006
Idiocracies and Skullduggeries
of the Season

SPARKS TRIBUNE 12-17-2006
The Barbwire Strikes Back
Special web edition 12-15-2006

NEWS FLASHES

NATCA warning: Reno airport traffic controllers dangerously understaffed
Ronald Reagan's union-busting chickens come home to crash

SANITARY POTEMKIN VILLAGE: During the National League of Cities convention that was held in Reno, the local official wranglers of the delegates made sure their charges didn't see the real Reno.

Union ironworker cheats death at UNR
Contributions solicited to help single father's children

Nevada State AFL-CIO issues appeal for family of fallen union brother killed in LV Trump Tower fall
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"If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it." — Travus T. Hipp, 1982

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

Killer trench contractor fined,
defrocked for 5 years

Nurses lockout ends in Gomorrah South: Back to the bargaining table, for now

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

Nevada State AFL-CIO distributes list
of union-signatory food and drug retailers

Pro-labor Sparks Councilman John Mayer faces cancer surgery

WORKERS BEWARE: The Nevada Labor Commissioner has become the business commissioner, no matter what the law says

US-created terrorist Augusto Pinochet dies at 91
The dictator's minions came to Nevada and won applause



Recent BARBWIRE Media Hits
and Ego Trips

   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

"Our long national nightmare is over."
Did I say that a dozen years ago?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 11-10-2006

BARBANO: Nevada's newly-hiked minimum wage is nowhere near enough
Reno Gazette-Journal, 11-11-2006

Oregon State U. minimum wage deflator

Time to bring back NAGPAC?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 8-1-2006

 


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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


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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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 bulletinAB)


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

Recent BARBWIRE Media Hits
and Ego Trips

   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

"Our long national nightmare is over."
Did I say that a dozen years ago?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 11-10-2006

BARBANO: Nevada's newly-hiked minimum wage is nowhere near enough
Reno Gazette-Journal, 11-11-2006

Oregon State U. minimum wage deflator

NevadaLabor.com wages section

Time to bring back NAGPAC?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 8-1-2006


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

Recent BARBWIRE Media Hits
and Ego Trips

   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

"Our long national nightmare is over."
Did I say that a dozen years ago?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 11-10-2006

BARBANO: Nevada's newly-hiked minimum wage is nowhere near enough
Reno Gazette-Journal, 11-11-2006

Oregon State U. minimum wage deflator

Time to bring back NAGPAC?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 8-1-2006

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
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Nevada Newspapers

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

 



Casino Dealer News

TIPSY TIP TRUCE TIPPING TOWARD TOPPLING

National Labor Relations Board issues complaint against Wynn for unfair labor practices against casino dealers

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

POLL: Voters favor minimum wage increase

State minimum wage proposal pits unions against restaurant group

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

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

Casino workers dilemma: To tell or not

2003 Casino Dealer News Archive

2001-2002 Casino Dealer News Archive

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Workers' Rights & the Law

The Nevada Supreme Court in Carson City


National Labor Relations Board issues complaint against Wynn for unfair labor practices against casino dealers

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

Gov. Dudley Do-Right's labor commissioners have become advocates for employers, turning the legal mandate of the office on its head. New Gov. Gibbons rubs salt into the wound. Click here for the smoking gun.

Contraceptives and Pahrump protest at UNLV

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

Minimum wage hike creates timing and regulatory issues

Top female NHP trooper files harassment lawsuit
Las Vegas Review-Journal's take on the story

What Constitution? Perpetual picketing problems persist in Gomorrah South
Metro's handling of protests on the Strip has improved, but not enough for the ACLU of Nevada
Las Vegas CityLife cover story, 11-30-2006
BARBWIRE Stiffed on the Strip
From Las Vegas CityLife

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



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

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.

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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

NEVADA PHILANTHROPIST, RIGHTS ACTIVIST MAYA MILLER DIES

THE ETHICS OF A UNION BUSTER: NevadaLabor.com names frontrunner for morally obtuse labor lyncher of the year award.

Day of the Day Laborer

Labor Federation Forms a Pact With Day Workers
The A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s partnership with an organization of day laborers is intended to help the labor movement tap into the energy of the immigrant rights movement.
New York Times 8-10-2006
Free registration may be required.

New York Times Editorial: Street-Corner Solidarity
New York Times 8-10-2006

DAY LABORERS: Supply and Demand

As more and more immigrants line streets to fill valley jobs,
officials explore option of opening worker center


Day laborers form ad hoc union
On the streets, work erratic and competition stiff.
Some workers band together to set minimum wage

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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Construction

Officials: Collapsed crane hindered Hoover Dam work, beef with non-union concrete supplier did not

Nevada State AFL-CIO threatens suit over Solargenix use of foreign workers on state-subsidized 64mw power plant

Landowners stand in the way of new LV Strip hotel-casino expansions

Green builders targeted for tax breaks

Lyon County construction tax funds going mostly to school maintenance

Union ironworker cheats death at UNR
Contributions solicited to help single father's children

Nevada State AFL-CIO issues appeal for family of fallen union brother
killed in LV Trump Tower fall

Killer trench contractor fined, defrocked for 5 years

TRANSPORTATION BOARD: Panel backs roadwork tax, fee plan to fill a looming roadwork budget shortfall of nearly $4 billion.

Union worker falls to death at LV Trump Tower site
Nevada State AFL-CIO issues plea for support of his family

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

Labor commissioner: No big changes in new state prevailing wage survey

Unlicensed contractor on state's 10 most-wanted list arrested in Sparks

Proposed blasting changes blasted

Environmentalists let into Ely power plant lawsuit

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

LV wants new gasoline/jet fuel pipeline from southern California

Washoe Regional Medical Center enters housing business
to attract employees; competitors watching

Las Vegas leery of hillside blasting

Labor secretary addresses international pipe trades convention in Las Vegas

Southeast Reno flood control construction still possible

Company seeks input on Ely power plant
Claims Nevada utilities stole its design
Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-2-2006

Gov. Dudley Do-Right appoints Richard Bunker to panel
Water importation foes angered
Las Vegas Sun 7-31-2006


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


Construction still leads job growth
Reno Gazette-Journal 7-22-2006

Families want criminal charges in northwest Reno trench collapse
which killed two workers

UPDATED 7-18-2006

Sierra Pacific Power starts work on new Tracy gas-fired plant

Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 350 Centennial Dinner

Las Vegas Review-Journal's Omar the Road Warrior

NEVADALABOR.COM BROKE THE STORY (4-24-06, 8:30 p.m. PDT)
CONTRACT RATIFIED
No regional cement strike in northern Nevada/eastern California

Using God to convince union members to vote against themselves

Heavy equipment operator killed south of Reno

Funeral arrangements announced for LV labor leader Bill Smirk
(Glaziers Union Local 2001)

Sempra Energy halts Gerlach, Nevada, coal-fired plant study
Reno Gazette-Journal 3-8-2006
Sempra puts Gerlach project up for sale

Huge housing project near Pahrump prompts concerns over water supply

Las Vegas Construction News Roundup 8-22-2005

Construction projects: Parking curbed at UNLV


Columnist Jeff German: Government silence about Las Vegas construction
industry's desire for self-inspection says a lot
Unions oppose move

"Even the county building inspectors, who are adamantly opposed to giving the homebuilders free rein to police themselves, are being kept in the dark by higher-ups in the county."


Columnist Jeff German: Inspectors don't feel at home with plan for builders
to do their own home inspections


Peril, but not like the old days:
Hoover Dam Bypass workers have it better than those who built the dam


White Pine representative: Water for new town not there

Proposed power plant means jobs, economic boost to White Pine County

Federal law slows down projects in Nevada

Land and construction costs rise, impact economic diversification efforts

LV lawyer who bilked insurers by colluding with construction defect claims adjuster gives up license

Nevada to get $1.3 billion in transportation money over next five years

Union accuses LV subcontractor of refusing to pay drywallers

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

Soaring cost of materials boosts LV construction prices

Las Vegas Area Construction News and Building Updates

Protestors criticize AG's inaction on university bid-rigging probe

State moves into new Carson City building on lease-purchase plan

Governor vetoes stronger state prevailing wage law
SB 274 would have extended area standard wage to redevelopment projects

So. Nev. RTC GM: Road construction is only part of the gridlock solution

Flaws found in 8 McCarran/Clearacre interchange freeway beams in Reno

Clashing motions in university contracting case

Big Nevada state construction plan approved

Workers claim retaliation in Yucca Mountain water piping case

First arbitration decision on justice center goes against Clark County

Street Beat: Workzone Vigilantes

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

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

Columnist John L. Smith:
Construction firm scales an Everest of litigation in winning case against Venetian

Growth task force gives report to Clark County Commission

Lawmaker seeks criminal inquiry into university bidding practices

Growth task force okays part of report to Clark County Commission

CCSN touts success of new job training division

Las Vegas Sun Editorial Task force hearings result in progress on the growth front

Nevada will receive $1.5 billion under House highway bill

Nevada construction projects may get early authorization

Assemblywoman calls for criminal probe into no-bid construction contracts at university

Growth task force ready with ideas

Labor commissioner pays stranded traveling construction workers

Groups want investigation into stranded construction workers' pay dispute

Coalition shelters workers while fighting for their back wages

Clark County Commission considers day laborer regulations

University regents look for way around Gov. Guinn's exclusions
of needed construction

North Las Vegas school construction may be delayed
due to residents' traffic concerns

Nevada unemployment up slightly, LV down, Reno still lowest
State still leads the nation in job growth

Northern Nevada activists propose growth task force similar to so. Nevada's
LV Growth Task Force launches expensive new website

Fallon area construction more than doubles in 2004

Winter freezes northern Nevada construction

RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL - No charges sought despite university bid violations
LAS VEGAS SUN: Audit rips UNR, UNLV on bidding illegality but finds no fraud
AP: University system broke law on bids

REVIEW-JOURNAL: Audit finds no fraud in university no-bid retrofit contracts

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

 

 

Construction 2004

Workers rights group accusing Sparks Marina contractor of not paying for skilled labor

2006 UPDATE: 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

Gov. Dudley Do-Right Does It Again

Governor vetoes stronger state prevailing wage law
SB 274 would have extended area standard wage to redevelopment projects

"Labor-friendly" Republican Guinn administration destroys decades
of wage protection with labor commissioner's new rules

Workers rights group accusing Sparks Marina contractor
of not paying for skilled labor

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Mining

NO FISHING (NO FISH) — Run-off ponds where the leach pad fluids are still collected at the Anaconda/ARCO/British Petroleum copper pit at Weed Heights near Yerington in Lyon County, Nevada.

(Photo copyright © 2006 Debra Reid/Sparks Tribune)

Nevada's Cancer Kids


Three-judge panel of Nevada Supreme Court reverses mining water ruling

Utilities say new mercury pollution rule not a problem

Quicksilver brain damage: Trying to avoid federal oversight, Nevada legislative panel approves new rules for coal-fired power plant emissions

MSHA proposes stiffer penalties for mine safety violations

Newmont Mining settles with Peruvian protestors

Court in Nevada case rules BLM must widen look at mining effects
Victory for environmentalists
Reno Gazette-Journal/AP 8-2-2002

Mining protest is dead in Nevada
Environmental groups are launching a two-pronged attack on a law passed last year they said bans public participation in state decisions, such as water pollution permit hearings and appeals.
Reno Gazette-Journal 7-6-2006
Ruling over mine exposes flaw in new law
Petitioners required to have standing in case
Las Vegas Sun 7-10-2006
Permission denied
Great Basin Mine Watch discovers that average citizens no longer have the right
to challenge corporate polluters
Reno News & Review 7-13-2006
UPDATE — Great Basin Mine Watch files appeal
Reno Gazette-Journal 9-8-2006

RADIATION AND TOXICS ARE GOOD FOR YOU
Sen. Ensign and others take the chamber of commerce PR line
to keep ARCO/Anaconda pit from EPA Superfund designation

Mason Valley News/Reno Gazette-Journal 7-6-2006

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

Community Action Group requests Superfund listing for mine
Mason Valley News/Reno Gazette-Journal 6-15-2006

Mercury levels in power plants get attention, mining ignored
Nevada has most mercury pollutants of any state by far — 85% of national total
No legislation planned now or in the future
Las Vegas Sun 3-5-2006

Is Nevada a toxic neighbor? Utah accuses Nevada gold mines
of sending mercury via air mail

Reno Gazette-Journal 7-9-2005

New rule limits miners' exposure to diesel exhaust

Winnemucca judge dismisses Newmont Mining whistleblowers' lawsuit, appeal likely
AP corrections to the above story

Two workers injured at Newmont Mine

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


2004 Mining Archive

 

The Nevada Legislature in Carson City
The capitol dome may be seen in the left background.


Gov. Mike O'Callaghan, friend of labor, 1929-2004
Former Nevada First Lady Carolyn O'Callaghan
follows Mike after five months


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Economy-Wages-
Government

Nevada lawmaker wants study
of immigrant economic impact

Recent Texas research showed huge benefit
Las Vegas Sun 12-27-2006

Nevada jobless rate holds steady in November at 4.2 percent
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-23-2006

Nevada State AFL-CIO threatens suit over Solargenix use of foreign workers on state-subsidized 64mw power plant

Minimum wage hike creates timing and regulatory issues

Study: Health insurance costs outstrip wages

Statewide unemployment up, Washoe County down
Reno Gazette-Journal 11-21-2006

Recent BARBWIRE Media Hits
and Ego Trips

   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

"Our long national nightmare is over."
Did I say that a dozen years ago?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 11-10-2006

BARBANO: Nevada's newly-hiked minimum wage is nowhere near enough
Reno Gazette-Journal, 11-11-2006

Oregon State U. minimum wage deflator

Time to bring back NAGPAC?
CORY FARLEY, RGJ, 8-1-2006

 


Labor commissioner: No big changes in new state prevailing wage survey

Utilities say new mercury pollution rule not a problem

Quicksilver brain damage: Trying to avoid federal oversight, Nevada legislative panel approves new rules for coal-fired power plant emissions

Stephen Tchudi: How do we educate the other 99 percent?

ERIN NEFF simplifies the right-wing trashed study projecting long term deficient Nevada education budgets

United Labor Agency of Nevada offers help to workers in need
Started by unions, the group provides financial assistance, food, referrals and citizenship guidance

Unemployment rises statewide

AP: Wal-Mart imposes pay caps on its workers

State minimum wage proposal pits unions against restaurant group

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

Labor secretary addresses international pipe trades convention in Las Vegas

Jobless rate at five-month high

Taking back their tips: GOP bill would devastate Nevada tip earners
MORE ON MINIMUM WAGE

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

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

Gov. Dudley Do-Right appoints Richard Bunker to panel
Water importation foes angered
Las Vegas Sun 7-31-2006

Big Boxes ballot-boxed
Chicago City Council defies Mayor Daley, OK's living wage
Major victory for organized labor

Construction still leads job growth
Reno Gazette-Journal 7-22-2006

Nevada jobless rate shrinks to 4%
Las Vegas Review-Journal 6-17-2006
Washoe jobless rate shrinks in May
Reno Gazette-Journal 6-17-2006

WAL-MART BEWARE!
Oprah takes on minimum wage issue.

Former Sen. Edwards helps Nevada State AFL-CIO raise money for minimum wage raise campaign in Henderson

Using God to convince union members to vote against themselves

Nevada jobless mark inches higher

Nevada ranks 51st among 50 states for worst overall jobs

Columnist Cory Farley: You mean it's not worse anywhere?

Nevada unemployment rate still lowest in the nation

Nevada continues to lead nation in job growth

Governor vetoes stronger state prevailing wage law
SB 274 would have extended area standard wage to redevelopment projects

Nevada job market remains strong statewide

Minimum wage issue goes back to voters

Jobs plentiful in Nevada
Nevada unemployment inches up to 4 percent

Journalist: Raise the minimum wage

Nevada number one in job growth
Nevada Unemployment held steady in March

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

Nevada unemployment creeps downward

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

Clark County Commission considers day laborer regulations



"We're from the Bush government and we're here to help you"

Paycheck Perdition: Bushites work overtime to cut paychecks
Molly Ivins: Middle class can bend over & kiss overtime goodbye
Nevada employers: overtime rules will have little impact; nurses most affected
New overtime law benefits some Nevadans and confuses others
Employers adjust to new overtime rule
AFL-CIO's ask-a-lawyer about overtime page (FREE)
WorkingAmerica.org overview of overtime changes
Economic Policy Institute study on impacts of new overtime rules
CNN's Lou Dobbs' publishes new book "Exporting America"


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Health Care

LV nurse lockout/negotiation
Updated 12-18-2006

Observers hopeful about new hospital/nurse talks

Hospitals and union have spent the better part of 2006 feuding over labor contract

LV nurses union leader wants to help make the world better

COLUMNIST JEFF GERMAN: Recent orchestration of hospital deal shows unions very much alive

Nurses return to work after five-day lockout

Hospital and union officials working to begin talks

Nurses union organizing strategy analyzed

Nurses, hospital operator ready to resume bargaining

LAS VEGAS SUN EDITORIAL: Back to the bargaining table

How politicians resolved impasse

12-6-2006 stories

Southern Nevada nurses to return to work
Meeting with officials spurs resumption of talk
s

Public officials acted as mediators

Some concerned by temp nurses

Columnist JOHN L. SMITH:
Nurses winning the PR fight, but can union win the war?

____

LAS VEGAS SUN EDITORIAL: Obstinacy leads to pickets
Hospitals should have embraced calls by political leaders for renewed negotiations
Las Vegas Sun 12-5-2006
Picketing nurse worries about effect on patients
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-5-2006
Gibbons, Buckley, Reid press sides for 'cooling-off' period

Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-5-2006
Dec. 4 union strike deadline arrives: lockout of LV nurses looms
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-4-2006

Monday, 04-Dec-2006 14:46:38 PST

News Flash
Hospitals begin lockout of nurses

A lockout involving several hundred nurses is under way at Valley and Desert Springs hospitals this morning, and union nurses are picketing both hospitals, after officials of the Valley Health System and the Service Employees International Union were unable over the weekend to resolve a seven-month labor dispute

Union officials have said they will file a complaint alleging the partial lockout is illegal, while several top Nevada officials, including Governor-elect Jim Gibbons and Assembly Speaker-elect Barbara Buckley, plan to urge Valley Health's owners to meet in Las Vegas for high-level talks on the contract impasse.

Valley Health officials are telling patients and visitors to look out for heavy traffic around Valley Hospital Medical Center on Shadow, Pinto and Tonopah lanes, and around Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center on East Flamingo Road and Bruce Street. Traffic will be heaviest from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., they said.

Several top Nevada officials will meet Tuesday at 1 p.m. with executives of Universal Health Services to discuss a 30-day cooling-off period in tense labor negotiations between Universal Health's local Valley Health System subsidiary and nurses belonging to the Service Employees International Union.

Updated: 12:22 p.m. From the Las Vegas Review-Journal



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


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

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


 


Safety on the Job

 



Wear safety on your sleeve and in your mind.

Please be careful out there.

Cops want traffic cameras, enhanced seat belt penalties in 2007 legislative session

Road Warrior: New website offers drivers a place to vent


Union ironworker cheats death at UNR

Funds being raised to help injured single-father's family

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.

Danny L. Thompson, Nevada State AFL-CIO

Worker falls to death at LV Trump Tower site
"According to OSHA reports, the federal agency inspected the Perini construction site at the Trump location twice – once on Aug. 1 and again on Aug. 28 – after it received complaints. The outcome and details of those inspections wasn't known on Tuesday."
Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-6-2006


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

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

Killer trench contractor fined, defrocked for 5 years

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

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

Utilities say new mercury pollution rule not a problem

Quicksilver brain damage: Trying to avoid federal oversight, Nevada legislative panel approves new rules for coal-fired power plant emissions

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

Families want criminal charges in northwest Reno trench collapse which killed two workers
UPDATED 7-18-2006

Expert: Hispanics increasingly unsafe at work

American Pacific: Henderson rocket fuel maker
schedules long range cleanup

Feds cite Barrick for fatality at Nevada mine

OSHA takes credit for one-year decline
in Mexican worker deaths

Funeral set for 21 year-old construction company
worker killed at Mound House

 

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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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Industrial Plant Disasters
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Official sees truck as source of propane explosion

LV Review-Journal update on propane plant explosion

North Las Vegas homes evacuated,
residents not allowed to return till evening

Lightning causes North Las Vegas propane plant to explode


OSHA to investigate company after chemical mishap at pool
Reno Gazette-Journal 5-11-2006

Driver in SierraChem gassing placed on leave
Reno Gazette-Journal 5-10-2006

Sierra Chemical does it again
Lifeguard saves swimmers from poison gas

Reno Gazette-Journal 5-9-2006

2003 Industrial Plant Disaster News Archive

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Construction explosion rains debris
on golf course development homes


Consultants back theory that weather, not blasts,
damaged Henderson homes

Henderson to adopt stricter regulations on blasts

Developers blast Henderson plan
to restrict construction detonations

Henderson City Council orders halt to blasting near homes

Study finds that construction blasts didn't damage nearby homes

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Nuked Nevada Workers



Endless Dark Tentacles:
The Nevada Nuclear Test Site


A lingering cloud

More fighting over nuclear fallout from planned nuke site bomb test

Plans for blast at nuke test site defended

LAS VEGAS SUN EDITORIAL: Gratitude is not enough
Probe shows government may have tried to shortchange nuclear weapons workers
Letter from wife of nuked worker in response to LV Sun editorial

Explosive issue pits future jobs against nukes
Critics question need for plutonium manufacturing center at NV Test Site

Test site workers' records dumped

Sen. Reid urges special status to compensate nuked test site workers

440 Nuclear Test Site workers or families to get help on cancer claims,
900 others still in limbo

Official: No plan to reduce benefits for Cold War workers

Occupational illness program: Test Site workers shortchanged

Atomic vets: 50 years later
Vets recall Nevada Test Site "battlefield"

COLD WAR COMPENSATION: Analysis finds disparity
Only 6 percent of former test site workers have had illness claims approved

Sick of lies: Meeting does little to quell unrest among ailing test site vets

Workers claim retaliation in Yucca Mountain water piping case

Nuked workers often die of cancer before government pays them a dime

Sick Nevada Nuclear Test Site workers may get paid quickly
Las Vegas Review-Journal version of above story

Nevada amends Yucca Mountain silica dust suit

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Reno contractors sue for millions in unpaid construction costs

Service Trades
and Public Sector

NATCA warning: Reno airport traffic controllers dangerously understaffed
Reno Gazette-Journal 12-19-2006
Reagan's union-busting chickens come home to crash

FAA must consider union complaints
"…There exists an obligation to consider union complaints about staffing and resources….If nothing else, they bring to mind the appalling conditions that led to an air traffic controllers' strike in the 1980s. The FAA should not dismiss the union's complaints out of hand. Safety of the flying public depends on it."
Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial 12-20-2006

Another typical crypto-fascist LVRJ-Republican hatchet job, this time on a master's degree program for teachers which the union supports

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

Former Washoe RTC employee sues for discrimination

Churchill County school unions object to automatic drug & alcohol testing for injured workers
UPDATE: Revised drug policy likely to be accepted by Churchill County School District employees

Top female NHP trooper files harassment lawsuit
Las Vegas Review-Journal's take on the story

Washoe County School District officials say group has circulated misleading information

Truckee, Calif., teachers picket for pay

Nevada State AFL-CIO distributes list
of union-signatory food and drug retailers

Union-signatory AT&T applies for its first Nevada video/cable franchise in Reno

Sparks police chief continues stonewalling NAACP

Washoe County OKs hiring of more court security officers
Pay blamed for exodus of bailiffs

Southern Nevada police and emergency dispatchers crimped by major worker shortage

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

Wal-Mart telling its workers how to vote

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

AP: Wal-Mart imposes pay caps on its workers

LV Fire Department veteran Richard Washington dies on the job

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


DOING THE MINIMUM
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

Wal-Mart expanding in northern Nevada region
2000 citizen predictions of Reno Northtowne closure — denied by Wal-Mart — finally come true
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL 8-2-2006

Mississippi West alive and well in the classroom
Clark County teacher pay on a par with the bottom of the barrel ­ Mississippi and New Mexico

Fallon area communications contract announced
Major victory for CWA Local 9413 and all Nevada workers

Big Boxes ballot-boxed

Chicago City Council defies Mayor Daley, OK's living wage
Major victory for organized labor

New York Times: Chicago Orders Big Box Stores like Wal-Mart
and Home Depot to pay $10 an hour by 2010

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Founding Convention of the Graphics Communications Conference of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters held in Las Vegas 6-24-2006

Wal-Mart continues to deny closure of Reno Northtowne store

WAL-MART BEWARE!
Oprah takes on minimum wage issue

East Reno residents protest Starbucks, county commission won't budge

New contract may mean new jobs at Naval Air Station Fallon

Road Warrior: Crossing guard program faces shortfall

PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL: Benefits report shocks officials — Local governments in Nevada facing estimated $2.8 billion liability over next 30 years

LV SEIU health district workers say management is unfair

Closing Hawthorne ammunition facility will kill 199 jobs, too few to merit a visit from the federal base closing commission
(Update: A commissioner was later persuaded to visit. He was presented with evidence that the Pentagon's numbers were grossly incorrect and that Hawthorne is not a suburb of Reno.)

Union demonstrates for freeze on UNR parking fees

LIQUOR NOT QUICKER —Teamsters strike major booze distributor

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Communications Workers strike SBC in Nevada
and 12 other states; new contract results.

Reno Councilman Dave Aiazzi pushes to hire more cops, contradicting what he asserted two years ago; re-election ploy alleged

TEAMSTERS RENO-TAHOE GARBAGE STRIKE LASTS 9 DAYS

NevadaLabor.com 2004 strike update page

State settles whistleblower's wrongful termination suit
Case demonstrates need for collective bargaining law for state workers

Carson City teacher Lorie Schaefer —
school board has offered nothing in negotiations

Carson City school board meeting ends in confrontation

Disability benefits pose fiscal woes for county

Collective bargaining for county workers under attack

Local firefighters don't risk their lives for the money

The perils of subcontracting government services
CCA seeks help to pay medical care for inmates
Las Vegas Sun Editorial — State should manage North Las Vegas prison itself

Workers fired for abuse at youth detention centers

How low can you go: The perils of Wal-Mart's low, low prices

The CAT Chronicles —
Six works inspired by the southern Nevada bus system

The Wal-Mart Solution

National report: Nevada's 1999-2001 education funding ranks among worst in U.S.
48th of 51 in per-pupil spending

Teachers' union poll says Nevada 48th in per pupil spending

2004 Service Trades & Public Sector Archive
2003 Service Trades & Public Sector Archive
2001-2002 Service Trades & Public Sector Archive

 



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