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2001-2002
Labor News Archive
Hospitality
Industry News
LV
Sun editorial — Simplify work cards but protect privacy of workers
Proposed
rules for Nevada casino work cards challenged
Security guard training questioned after two fatalities...
...
one of whom was former UNLV football star Amar Brisco
DEJA
VU ALL OVER AGAIN — RENO
TRANSIT STRIKE AND LOCKOUT
LAS
VEGAS TRANSIT STRIKE —
Bus
routes run but with fewer riders
Most drivers return to work after strike
LV
bus drivers approve new contract, end strike
Reno
bus drivers stage seven-hour warning-shot walkout
Striking
bus drivers seek delay in vote
FEAR
& LOATHING AND UNION BUSTING IN LAS VEGAS — Bus system union
goes to Chicago to talk with transit system upper management
Local
execs refuse to negotiate, threaten striker firing and replacement on
June 25
Transit
tax goes to ballot; AFL-CIO unions will oppose without strike settlement
Reno
bus strike may be next
Bus
drivers resoundingly reject management's second contract offer
Some members call for union president's resignation
FISCAL
SOLIDARITY — LV Unions vote to oppose RTC ballot issues/tax hikes
Citizens
Area Transit bus nearly kills Las Vegas woman
Company won't say if a replacement driver was at the wheel
Worried
bus patron
— Beware
riding with undertrained drivers
Frustrations
rising with temperatures as bus strike drags on and on
Las
Vegas Sun Editorial — Bus strike shows the perils of privatization
Reno
Gazette-Journal Editorial —
As Reno bus
strike deadline looms, northern Nevadans must learn from Las Vegas stoppage
CRUNCH
TIME —
LV bus drivers' union receives transit contractor's final offer
Keeping
unions out — Las Vegas Palms opens on-site medical clinic
Longtime
Nevada labor leader Leo Henrikson dies in LV
Former
head of cab drivers' union became top lobbyist
Reno
city attorney to review union-proposed
mandatory
severance pay law for casinos
Reno
Flamingo-Hilton hotel-casino closes
Workers
feel disrespected, short-changed
UPDATE
— Union
wins Flamingo severance pay
Las
Vegas — Kiss my foot, boss! Cocktail servers rally at Venetian
SIT
ON THIS — Mirage cocktail waitresses win round in federal
court against Steve Wynn, who called them "fat asses"
Reagan-appointed
judge denies Nevada casino workers class action status in four casino
secondhand smoking cases
Civil
rights leaders seek easing of work card requirements
Las Vegas Strip officials repeal work card rules
Columnist
Steve Sebelius: City of Las Vegas should do the same
Columnist
John L. Smith: Work card requirements nonsensical
LVRJ
Editorial -- LV work card ordinance won't withstand lawsuit
Harrah's-Reno
bartender, fired for refusing to wear makeup,
featured by FOX News, Mother Jones, People & Oprah
SEE
NAKED FLESH WITHOUT MAKEUP
Exclusive Harrah's personal best photos
Coming soon to a picket line and courtroom near you
Ex-Harrah's bartender Darlene Jespersen wins
Mother Jones Magazine HELLRAISER Award
REAL
HEELS -- Harrah's implements "personal best" appearance standards,
including spike heels, amid protests in Atlantic City
The
Press of Atlantic City editorially trashes Harrah's cookie-cutter employee
appearance program
TIME
FOR A RAISE —
Culinary Union inks first contracts with Reno Hilton and Flamingo Hilton-
Reno
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Stratosphere
salts the mine, decertifies TWU dealers union
New
Frontier reaches FIRST EVER DEALERS CONTRACT with Transportation Workers
Union
BROKEN
PROMISES -- Dealers complain after voting down union
TWU
charters new Local 721 for Las Vegas casino dealers
Nevada
AFL-CIO promises support
Casino dealers union begins new round of negotiations
with hotels
BURIED
TREASURE -- Treasure Island dealers vote down union
AARRGH!
Treasure Island loss leaves union with 3 wins, 8 losses
Hotel
industry spends millions on union busters to beat dealers out of pennies
Excalibur
Hotel-Casino dealers vote against union
UNION
WINS L.V. FRONTIER HOTEL CASINO DEALERS ELECTION
Co-dependent
card dealers vote down unionization
at New York, New York Hotel-Casino on Vegas Strip
Las
Vegas Strip resorts bust out two more casino dealer unionization votes
LAS
VEGAS TROPICANA CASINO DEALERS VOTE UNION-YES
TWU
wins Las Vegas Tropicana dealers vote by 2-1 margin
Las
Vegas Hilton dealers vote against unionizing,
Union files federal charges against Monte Carlo
LV
Monte Carlo casino dealers vote against union
Longtime
Nevada journalist defends casino workers
Management
drives casino dealers toward union
Station
Casinos fires workers at newly-acquired
Las Vegas Fiesta and Santa Fe properties
Black
casino dealer spat upon, employer does nothing
LONG
BATTLE WON --- Reno Hilton signs six-year contract
with security guards union
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Workers'
Rights
SKIN
SCANDAL — Dancers Alliance protests extortionary
stripper business license fee proposal
Editorial
— Gaming commission's new work card rules lack privacy safeguards
ACLU:
work card proposal lacks privacy
Gaming
work card reform on its way
Rights
groups criticize proposed statewide work card rules
as giving regulators too much discretion
Some
North Las Vegas workers will no longer need work cards
After
seven years, fired worker wins sex discrimination lawsuit
against Caesars Palace
National
group calls Las Vegas homeless conditions "shocking"
More
workers file discrimination suits against LV airport
Former
Local 165 Bartenders sue Caesars Palace /Park Place
Caesars
fires 45 dealers, all of whom had been on four-day weeks since 9/11
Resort employer uses construction as excuse
No
crime found in park police candid camera caper
Park
police find hidden camera in men's room —
Case raises serious issues of employee surveillance
Nevada
Supreme Court allows warrantless
electronic tracking of private automobiles
SIGN
THIS OR ELSE — Nevada Supreme Court okays
docking worker paychecks for cash shortages
Ninth
Circuit Court rules for picketers and protestors in landmark case
Culinary Union defeats Sheldon Adelson's Venetian
Anyone wanting
a copy of the decision, request
it here
and we'll e-mail it to you in pdf format.
Reno
Gazette-Journal editorially praises decision
Business
as usual: Some ignore the court
Wal-Mart
and others named to Southern Nevada Interfaith Council for Worker Justice
employer
book of shame
Nevada Attorney General Del Papa sides with right-wing U.S. Supreme
Court against Nevada prison guard
Wal-Mart
hit with largest sex discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S. history
Supremes
rule that one sexual remark is not harassment
Las
Vegas-- Dolores Huerta Center helps low-wage workers
Sparks
cops announce renewed roust of day laborers
Nevada employment discrimination remedies called
a joke
Fired
Hilton worker wins multi-million dollar judgment
Leader
of fledging LV cab driver organization fired
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