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TODAY'S HOT LAPS BREAKING NEWS Reno-Sparks NAACP asks that Regional Transportation Commission finally honor Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Read My Lips Roulette Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 5-11-2008 Las Vegas Musicians Union leader Thom Pastor seriously injured by drunk driver May 4, 1970-May 4, 2008 The 38th anniversary of Kent State List, lust and political roulette Barbwire/Sparks Tribune 5-4-2008 Workers Memorial Day Déjà vu all over again Laughing gods, Easter bunnies and black whales Barbwire 4-27-2008 Guns, gods, gays, gringos, graybeards & gushers Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 4-20-2008 Monopolists and mass malpractice Gasoline price fixing and greasing pols to exploit the sick Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 4-13-2008 Washoe Med: Renowned for Ripping Us Off Inhospitable Reno hospital terrorizes its nurses for daring to picket for an hour. Barbwire Special Web Edition 4-10-2008 Take it to the streets today! Who's on Worst? Nurses organize, governor Hooverized, regents piratize Is anybody running this show? Nurses schedule April 10 demonstration in Reno Barbwire 4-6-2008 This day in history: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther, King., Jr., assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., April 4, 1968 Three days of commemorating King in Reno, April 4-6, 2008 Remembering King by forgetting him Reno César Chávez event gets overflow crowd Reno, Sparks and Washoe County declare March 31, 2008, as César Chávez Day GIANTS 3: The beast awakens and comes full circle Barbwire 3-30-2008 UAW and other unions protest unfair trade at Reno General Motors warehouse Reno Gazette-Journal 3-29-2008 Sign the petition online César Chávez Day brings labor and management together in Reno Annual event at Circus Circus March 31 will also bring together César Chávez and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. U-News 3-27-2008 Week of the Giants Begins United Auto Workers demonstrate while Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and César Chávez offer advice Barbwire 3-23-2008 Giants will walk among us again Barbwire 3-16-2008 Annual César Chávez Celebration Circus Circus Reno — March 31, 2008 Former LV labor leader Frank Caine dies Colorado right-to-work-for-less proposal on the ropes as residents learn the facts about fire-at-will In These Times 3-14-2008 Longtime St. Mary's hospital employee "Fired for cancer?" in a fire-at-will state A not very Christian tale Reno News & Review Editorial 3-13-2008 Fired for cancer? Reno News & Review 3-6-2008 Right-to-work / fire-at-will law plagues Nevada for more than half a century Painters Union pickets Scheels store at Sparks Marina Legends development Communications workers picket subcontractor Republican immigration plank plunked into Democratic platform Employer and employee sanctions spark opposition STRIKE LOOMS CLOSER Culinary Union pushes for injunction against Reno Grand Sierra New Paycheck Deception Initiatives Filed New Barbwire Traveling salesman syndrome Taxpayers don't even get kissed afterward Prevailing wages threatened statewide Union-busting ABC state senator busted for conflicts 3-9-2008 BARBWIRE: The Wages of Sin "My doctor killed me." 2-24-2008 Rats, fat cats and Olympic Kool-Aid NEW— laketahoedealers.com Barbwire.TV 2-10-2008 The seven-second solution Featuring awfully waffley Wallerie Barbire/Sparks Tribune/2-3-2008 U.S. union membership rises for the first time in 25 years From Poor Denny's Almanac On Jan. 28, 1968, responding to a complaint filed by the American Federation of Casino and Gaming Employees, the National Labor Relations Board upheld a hearing examiner's decision ordering some Las Vegas casinos to rehire 42 casino workers, halt anti-union activities, and post notices telling workers they would no longer be penalized for union activity. Paying for our sins Barbwire / Sparks Tribune 1-27-2008 The disappointment tango Ditchdiggers and the danse macabre NBC orders affiliates off the air to dump Kucinich from debate Barbwire/ Sparks Tribune 1-20-2008 Clinton and Romney win their party presidential caucuses in Nevada PRESIDENTIAL CAUCUS CAPERS Full Frontal Hillary Sen. Clinton was absolutely correct that it took a president to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The attacks against her are based on historical revisionism. MORE BARBWIRE: The crying game UPDATED: MONDAY 1-14-2008 8:42 p.m. PST, 04:42 1-15-2008 GMT/SUT/CUT — Breaking News: Judge orders Dennis Kucinich included in Jan. 15 Las Vegas NBC presidential debate Culinary Union endorses Obama Teachers union sues Democrats to help Hillary Special "at large precincts" for on-duty hotel workers challenged Tim Russert: Culinary Local 226 being pressured to back off from presidential endorsement Statewide Communications Workers Union endorses Edwards Harrah's threats of major litigation force Caesars' new dealers' union to move website Dealers at LV Flamingo and other Harrah's-owned resorts report aggressive new management campaign of fear and intimidation BARBWIRE: Blasts from the past 1-6-2008 NLRB judge finds Wynn guilty of breaking labor law BARBWIRE: Time to launch 12-30-2007 Dallas Morning News Texan of the Year: The Immigrant 12-29-2007 Construction worker dies in North Las Vegas gas line rupture Clark County School District denies pushing students toward military enlistment as part of career counseling PAUL KRUGMAN: Obama vs. Unions Although the movement is a shadow of its former self, unions still matter politically. New York Times 12-24-2007 / Free registration may be required UPDATE 12-23-2007 3:06 p.m. PST, 23:06 GMT/SUT/CUT – Casino dealers at Caesars Palace on the Las Vegas Strip have voted to unionize by 380 to 128 of a landslide of 75% " yes" to 25%" no." Ironically, this is the same percentage won by the Transportation Workers Union earlier this year from dealers at the Wynn-Las Vegas. The bargaining group consists of about 565 employees. MUY BUENO. MAZELTOV. BENETHICA. CONGRATULATIONS! Nevada jobless rate rises to highest level since 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-22-2007 Las Vegas Valley housing still in the basement Las Vegas Review-Journal 12-22-2007 Nevada Culinary Union leader D. Taylor: Revoke Tropicana gaming license EXCLUSIVE! Barbwire spy at the Battle of Waterloo reports that uncommitteds will probably break for John Edwards on Iowa Caucus night 12-17-2007 HOT OFF DEPRESS: Local small businesses fear big box kibosh Gov. Jim the Dim swallows Cabellyup Kool-Aid CORY FARLEY: If you have a favorite outdoor store in town, you might say goodbye. It will be hard for anybody to compete with this. Nov. 7 downtown Reno event scheduled in support of the Jena 6. See RenoSparksNAACP.org for details. Blackguards and gold stars Full frontal Hillary, Part Deux 12-16-2007 The last picture show Shamelessly caucusing while Jim the Dim is cutting No strike at Grand Sierra Reno this month CWA Local 9413 endorses John Edwards 12-9-2007 MORE BARBWIRE Christmas stockings 2007: Full frontal Hillary 12-2-2007 Mae West, moonhowlers, poets and anarchists 11-25-2007 Keep hope alive 11-18-2007 Follytix for fun and prophet 11-11-2007 BARBWIRE: Dull anger 11-4-2007 The Lady in the Red Dress The Barbwire's classic Nevada Day column written in 1983 SPARKS TRIBUNE 10-28-2007 The cure for what ails us Fired Harrah's bartender's lipstick lawsuit featured in award-winning new Hollywood documentary BARBWIRE 10-21-2007 Getting away with murder BARBWIRE 10-7-2007 Burning down the house In Reno, corporate welfare comes before fire safety BARBWIRE 9-30-2007 Former Nevada State AFL-CIO leader Evans dies * Latino workers jailed after La Migra busts McDonald's * Farm workers gassed in Yerington * Renown/Washoe Med nurses win union vote * Reno City Council votes Cabela's $34 million in corporate welfare BARBWIRE: Comeuppance for corporate welfare queens UNION ELECTIONS AND STRIKES SPREAD ACROSS THE LAND GOWABUNGA! Renown/Washoe Med nurses vote, UAW strikes, Reno City Council rolls over and plays dead SPECIAL INTERNET EDITION 9-25-2007 BOXING PANDORA DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 9-23-2007 BARBWIRE: Culinary negotiates, nurses agitate, both may vacate and demonstrate DAILY SPARKS TRIBUNE 9-16-2007 NEW! Health Care War Room NevadaLabor.com Exclusive First time online: Washoe County Grand Jury Report detailing the scandals and skullduggery which resulted in the theft of Reno's public hospital HOT AUGUST STRIKE! — SPFPA LOCAL 1010 security guards man picket lines in front of the Reno Grand Sierra nee Reno Hilton during the 1996 strike which resulted in the first security guard union contract at a Nevada resort in more than three decades. The Little Union That Could will stand with its brothers and sisters as the Culinary Union prepares to strike the Grand Sierra in 2007. TOLJASO UPDATE: August 22, 2007, 10:59 p.m. PDT, 05:59 Aug. 23 GMT/SUT/CUT $5 billion Arab oil money deal may fuel Culinary/MGM-Mirage contract settlement Union and MGM cut a deal Las Vegas Review-Journal 8-23-2007 Which means the union can now focus on this: Culinary union strike vote At a Reno hotel facing a possible strike, Biden and Richardson promise to support unions SPARKS TRIBUNE 8-23-2007 Richardson out-promises Biden NEW BARBWIRE: On 9/11, don't contemplate — agitate! The new Confederate States of America 9-9-2007 Clinton and Dodd diss AFL-CIO convention, Culinary union sets strike vote at two northern Nevada hotels Laborers Union Local 169 demonstrates against low wages at Atlantis Hotel-Casino in Reno BARBWIRE LABOR DAY 2007: Labors of Love 9-2-2007 Grand Designs 8-26-2007 Going, going, gone Labor dispatches and Hillary scratches 8-19-2007 Party like it's 1929 LV strike fever may spread north Exclusive — Presidential candidates to address Nevada State AFL-CIO convention in Reno Union-busting Reno hospital offers excuses for rape and pillage 8-12-2007 The empires strike back 8-5-2007 Bandwidth bandidos 7-29-2007 Raw meat and greenbacks 7-22-2007 Buried in a Detroit sled: New wisdom from used cars 7-8-2007 Buried in a Detroit sled: New wisdom from used cars 7-8-2007 Tax Foundation overstates Nevada tax burden Las Vegas Sun 7-7-2007 NEW — cabellyup.com Unions and other taxpayers protest Cabela's corporate welfare State investigates use of illegal, unlicensed contractors Reno council postpones $40.5 million corporate welfare boondoggle New Frontier workers will be jobless Tycoon won't share windfall Obligations depend on morals or a union contract LV Strip: New Frontier to close July 15 Reno: Anti-union owner buying Fitzgerald's BARBANO ON NEVADA NEWSMAKERS Click here for statewide Radio/TV/Webcast/Podcast info. CWA Report: US lags other nations in online speed Nevada 31st among 51 states+DC Those who ignore history are condemned to low wages Card check union elections were stopped by the GOP congress of 1947, ending the only 12 years of union progress in the past century Which is why organized labor wants to go back to the future and why big business is screaming like a stuck pig MGM/Culinary negotiations stalled over card checks Las Vegas Sun 6-23-2007 Nevada: The Right to Work for Less State MONOPOLY IS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY: Nevada power rates rising faster than cable TV prices Nevada regulators roll over and play dead BARBWIRE ENERGY WAR ROOM Letter Carriers national president joins local members picketing Reno main post office in subcontracting protest REPORT: Wholesale retaliation against unionized Wynn casino dealers. Whaddya expect? In memoriam Former LV labor leader Frank Caine dies Lee Tillman, Boulder/Hoover Dam builder, 1913-2007 Utah state senator and AFL-CIO leader Ed Mayne dies Former Nevada State AFL-CIO leader Evans dies at 71 Blackie Evans Labor's sweetheart Bebe Hoffman dies Sen. Reid, Rep. 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