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MAYA MILLER DIES

HOWARD DEAN HEADLINES NEVADA LABOR POLITICAL CONVENTION

NEW BARBWIRE
THREE OF A KIND AGAINST THE HOUSE

WHERE WERE YOU IN '52?

INTOLERANCE,
SELF-TAUGHT

RED, WHITE & SCREWED II

RED, WHITE AND SCREWED

Stricken little boy not getting much help to save his life

PUFF PIECES & PRESCRIPTION PILLAGE

GIRLY MEN, BATTLEBOTS
and a chance to save a kid

TAR & FEATHERS ON MAYDAY

TOMORROW'S NEWS TODAY: Damning new secondhand smoke study — Updated

BREAKING NEWS
LV pharmacy workers lockout over health care costs tentatively settled

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

Wal-Mart continues to deny closure of Reno Northtowne store

SCROOGE BEWARE! OPRAH takes on minimum wage issue.

Former Sen. Edwards helps NV AFL-CIO raise money for minimum wage campaign

Labor leader Roland Christensen dies

BARBWIRE
Boycotting water on Earth Day
11 years in the making: The gasoline price- fixing story you'll read only here

Migrating Conservatism:
Immigration is no problem at all
4-9-2006

Fatal Conservatism
T
he bitter fruits of state stinginess
4-2-2006

 




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CURRENT U-NEWS + archives

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        U-NEWS JULY 16-DECEMBER 31, 2006

      U-News 2004-2005 Front Page Stories | 2000-2003 Front Page Stories

       JAN. 1- JULY 15, 2006 HEREINBELOW

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

      Satire isn't dead, just nuked. ALSO: Frontrunner named for morally obtuse labor lyncher of the year award.

      JULY 5, 2006 — On this date in history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law, Larry Doby integrated the American League and a death row inmate tried to save the sight of a labor writer. —> MORE

      JUNE 30, 2006 — The Day the Music Died, again: KTHX-KOZZ rock 'n' roll giant Harry Reynolds died June 23 at age 49. More than 150 family, friends and fans attended Thursday's memorial service at Sparks Christian Fellowship. More in Sunday's BARBWIRE in the Daily Sparks Tribune.

June 28, 2006: 143rd birthday of this website's union

Friday, June 23, 2006, 2:27 a.m. PDT — THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: On this date in 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, the law which infects the United States with the most restrictive, unworkable and unfair labor laws in the first world to this very day — as reflected in the slow emaciation of the American middle class over the past 33 years. (New York Times/AP e-headlines; for more go to NevadaLabor.com LABOR HISTORY)

      JUNE 21, 2006: In Memoriam: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner — How very young were we then?

SIERRA CHEMICAL DOES IT AGAIN: Poison gas, driver on leave, more excuses
OSHA launches investigation

     
History of recent industrial disasters, including four deaths at Sierra Chemical

Clark County commissioners' showdown with a concrete company could jeopardize the $234 million Hoover Dam bypass bridge

The world is in an uproar, the danger zone is everywhere
Sound advice from Percy Mayfield and Ray Charles
5-4-2006 — the 36th anniversary of the murder of four Kent State University students by the Ohio National Guard. Two more were killed and 12 wounded at Jackson State in Mississippi just 11 days later. More almanac...

MAYDAY! Take a brief trip back in time to remember why this date is so important in your daily life.

BREAKING NEWS — How to make sure long-dormant efforts to unionize your hotel finally catch fire: Reno Peppermill Hotel-Casino fires two Latina citizens for immigration rally protest

     Reno trade unionistas file casino corporate welfare remedy initiative

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

Breakthrough in Fallon cancer cluster research

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

NEVADALABOR.COM SCOOP (4-24, 8:30 p.m. PDT) — Contract ratified. No regional cement strike in northern Nevada/eastern California.

 

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.)

 

 

CESAR CHAVEZ DAY 2006 —Washoe County students show their home-made signs as they form to march to the Neil Road Community Center to celebrate the March 31 birthday of United Farm Workers Union founder César Chávez.

BARBWIRE 4-9-2006 — Immigration is no problem at all

READ MORE ABOUT IT: Twin immigration marches planned for Reno on April 10

DEJA VU: War declared on Mexico for refusal to salute American flag on Mexican soil

POLL: Most Nevadans say let immigrants stay. Who'da thunk it?

SEE THE MOVIE "A Day Without A Mexican" and laugh yourself sensible

Viva César Chávez!

 
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Barbwire by Barbano

NEW THREE OF A KIND AGAINST THE HOUSE
7-9-2006

How to live forever: Harry Reynolds, 1957-2006
7-2-2006

WHERE WERE YOU IN '52?
6-25-2006

INTOLERANCE, SELF-TAUGHT
6-18-2006

RED, WHITE & SCREWED, Part Deux
6-11-2006

RED, WHITE AND SCREWED
6-4-2006

Stricken little boy not getting much help to save his life
5-21-2006

PUFF PIECES & PRESCRIPTION PILLAGE
5-14-2006

GIRLY MEN, BATTLEBOTS and a chance to save a kid
5-7-2006

Tar and feathers on May Day
4-30-2006

Boycotting water on Earth Day
11 years in the making — The real storyabout gasoline price fixing you'll read only here
4-23-2006

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 with new links and special web edition commentary, plus legal analysis by Jespersen attorney Jenny Pizer

Migrating conservatism
Immigration is no problem at all
4-9-2006

Fatal conservatism
State stinginess brings back ghosts of depredations past

4-2-2006

March of the Naked Cowboys
3-26-2006

Dens of Iniquity and Inequity
The latest cable TV ripoffs and a visit from a blackguard named Edwin Meese III
3-19-2006

Donut hole death spirals
The lastest depredations by Nevada's corporate welfare queens

Fast turnover and fast cars: Classified dangers for the real estate bubble
Plus a visit from Bill Harrah, Merle Brennan and Enzo Ferrari
EXPANDED FROM THE 2-26-2006 DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE

BREAKING NEWS & BULLETINS + ALMANAC

NevadaLabor.com announces the frontrunner for morally obtuse labor lyncher of the year

      JULY 5, 2006 — On this date in history, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act into law, Larry Doby integrated the American League and a death row inmate tried to save the sight of a labor writer. —> MORE

      The Day the Music Died, again: KTHX-KOZZ rock 'n' roll giant Harry Reynolds died June 23 at age 49. More than 150 family, friends and fans attended his June 29 memorial service at Sparks Christian Fellowship. More in Sunday's BARBWIRE in the Daily Sparks Tribune.

JUNE 28, 2006 — 143rd birthday of this website's union

      Friday, June 23, 2006, 2:27 a.m. PDT — THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED: On this date in 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, the law which infects the United States with the most restrictive, unworkable and unfair labor laws in the first world to this very day — as reflected in the slow emaciation of the American middle class over the past 33 years. (New York Times/AP e-headlines; for more go to NevadaLabor.com LABOR HISTORY)

JUNE 21, 2006: In Memoriam: James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner — How very young were we then?

REPORT LOCATIONS OF SCHOOL DESTROYER PETITION CIRCULATORS

NEVADA PHILANTHROPIST, ACTIVIST MAYA MILLER DIES

HOWARD DEAN HEADLINES NEVADA LABOR POLITICAL CONVENTION

LV pharmacy workers lockout over health care costs tentatively settled

SIERRA CHEMICAL DOES IT AGAIN: Poison gas, driver on leave, more excuses
OSHA launches investigation

History of recent industrial disasters, including four deaths at Sierra Chemical

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

BREAKING NEWS — How to make sure long-dormant efforts to unionize your hotel finally catch fire: Reno Peppermill Hotel-Casino fires two Latina citizens for immigration rally protest

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

     Reno trade unionistas file casino corporate welfare remedy initiative

Breakthrough in Fallon cancer cluster research

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

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


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

Wal-Mart continues to deny closure of Reno Northtowne store

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

Labor leader Roland Christensen dies

Unsettling advice for today from Sen. RFK

Using God to convince union members to vote against themselves

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

Sparks labor leader Bob Curtis, 1937-2006

Experts say NW Reno trench collapse death was avoidable
Second worker dies
and Reno Gazette-Journal charges him for an obituary
UPDATED 7-18-2006

Heavy equipment operator killed south of Reno

Annual César Chávez Celebration 3-31-2006 | Español  |Teamsters Local 533

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CURRENT U-NEWS

Right to Work for Less | Nevada Labor History | Sparks Centennial

War Rooms: Cable TV, Cancer Kids, Starbucks, Wal-Mart

NEW OLD RIPOFFSEnergy War Room: Updated with Lotsa New Outrages
BANDIDOS OF A FEATHER: Warren Buffet and Henry Kravis rape and pillage profits from ratepayers
Beware the Ides of March

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