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Patagonia retail workers in Reno vote to form company’s first union in U.S. 2024-03-14 [This is Reno]

Biden weighing joining Las Vegas hotel workers on picket line, union chief says 2024-02-05 [Reuters]

Culinary Union reaches tentative agreement with Circus Circus Las Vegas 2024-01-28 [3 NBC News]

CES 2024: Robot baristas and AI chefs cause stir as casino union workers fear for their jobs 2024-01-14 [Economic Times]

Sunrise Hospital workers vote to unionize under SEIU Local 1107 2024-01-13 [KLAS]

As robot baristas and AI chefs debut at Vegas tech show, casino union workers fear for their jobs 2024-01-13 [LATimes]

The life-changing power of the strike: How 500,000 workers refused to work in 2023 — and won big 2023-12-30 [Culinary Union 226]

State officials rule in favor of Nebraska workers union's motion to pause Gov. Pillen's return to work order 2023-12-30 [KETV]

Las Vegas hotel workers union reaches tentative deal with Caesars, but threat of strike still looms 2023-11-09 [PBS]

Las Vegas hospitality workers prepare to strike for higher wages as F1 race nears 2023-11-08 [CBS]

Tens of thousands of Las Vegas Strip hotel workers at 18 casinos could on go strike this month 2023-11-04 [Culinary Union 226]

Fourth starbucks store in las vegas valley votes to unionize For more info 2023-10-25 [3 News]

Thousands of hospitality workers took to the picket lines in Las Vegas 2023-10-13 [KVVU]

Thousands of Las Vegas workers to picket MGM, Caesars casinos 2023-10-10 [Reuters]

Las Vegas hospitality workers vote for strike against hotels, casinos 2023-10-01 [Culinary Union]

Las Vegas hospitality workers authorize strike at major resorts 2023-09-27 [NY Times]

Las Vegas Hotel Workers Move Closer to Potential Strike 2023-09-07 [WSJrnl]

Over 1,000 Nevada Home Care Workers Take Part in Landslide Union Elections in one of the Biggest Organizing Drives in Recent History 2023-09-01 [SEIU]

Thousands rally on Las Vegas Strip in support of food service workers demanding better pay, benefits 2023-08-13 [AP]

Starbucks location in North Las Vegas becomes 3rd in Nevada to unionize 2023-07-07 [NBC]

Home Care Workers Win Historic $16 Minimum Wage and Major Funding Increase to Ensure Quality Care 2023-06-07 [SEIU]

Nurses and Healthcare Workers From HCA’s Sunrise, MountainView and Southern Hills Hospitals to Hold “Speak Out for Safe Staffing and Quality Care” 2023-05-28 [SEIU 1107]

Investigation confirms Nevada Gold Mines violated safety rules, contributing to miner’s death 2022-10-15 [High Country News]

US Rail Workers Fed Up & On Verge Of National Strike Over Working Conditions, Health & Safety For more info 2022-09-15 [LVP]

Lawsuit claims construction worker killed was buried alive 2022-08-13 [WAGM]

In new flyer, Culinary Union warns members Sanders would ‘end' their health care if elected president 2020-02-12 [NV Indiependent]

Culinary union members ‘implore' all properties in gaming industry to pay workers 2020-04-09 [CBS]

“Women in Las Vegas are not safe,” Gaming Control Board told 2018-09-07 [Current]

Nobody knows how many resort workers are infected— including employees 2020-07-11 [Las Vegas Rev-Jrnl]

Unions picketing Circus Circus Reno over pay, allege ‘aggressive union-busting' 2019-04-18 [Reno Gazette Jrnl]

Nevada casino workers fight an uphill battle to get – and keep – their unions 2019-08-20 [Guardian]

Scholars: Vote to strike by Culinary Union doesn't mean stoppage is imminent 2018-05-21 [Las Vegas Sun]

Democrats' midterm triumphs in Nevada would not have been possible without Culinary Workers Union Local 226 2018-11-18 [Dissent]

How a Union-Busting Behemoth Shook up Nevada's Gold Country 2022-01-14 [Mother Jones]

Why Nevada's Culinary Union isn't buying Medicare for All 2019-10-10 [PBS]

Pilots union asks judge to deny Allegiant's request to block strike 2018-08-08 [Las Vegas Rev-Jrnl]

Teachers irate over school district's about-face on pay raise formula 2017-06-24 [Las Vegas Rev-Jrnl]

Teachers union files initiative to raise Nevada's gaming tax 2020-01-15 [Las Vegas Rev-Jrnl]

Why Bernie Sanders's fight with a union really matters 2020-02-14 [Washington Post]

Suncity Issues Arrive in the US as Vegas Union Seeks Federal Investigation 2022-02-10 [Casino]

State plan to protect workers from extreme heat gets pushback from industry 2022-02-04 [This is Reno]

RTC bus riders face disruptive schedule as strike goes on for second week 2021-10-06 [Reno Gazette Journal]

Culinary Union to march Friday night on the Strip starting at 5 p.m. 2021-09-24 [8 News Now Las Vegas]

Wynn LA Table Game Dealers Unanimously Agree on UAW Deal 2021-09-04 [Gambling News]

Teamsters Laud Ruling That Fired Hotel Workers Are Entitled To Their Jobs, Back Pay 2021-08-16 [Teamsters]

Mountainview Hospital nurses to picket Wednesday, call on HCA to invest in RN staff and patient care 2021-08-03 [National Nurses United]

RTC drivers walk out on strike 2021-08-04 [KOLO]

NV had 290-to-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 2020 2021-07-26 [No. NV Biz Weekly]

Older Workers struggle in Nevada 2021-06-28 [Sierra NV Ally]

Lawmakers consider proposal to suspend business licenses over unpaid debt 2021-05-25 [NV Independent]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-04-1968 In a church in Memphis, Tennessee, 10,000 citizens gather to hear what will be the last speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He will stress the similarities between the labour movement and that of civil rights. [more]

8-04-1911 An explosion at the Banner coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, kills 128 prisoners rented to the company as miners, under a contract with the prison administration. [more]

10-04-1930 Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

11-04-1934 Frank Norman is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for organising citrus workers irrespective of their race. [more]

11-04-1974 United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. [more]

14-04-1939 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck's classic novel about itinerant labor, strikes and the Great Depression, is published. [more]

15-04-1889 Birth of labour and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph [more]

15-04-1916 The newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver. [more]

15-04-1973 housands of members of the United Farm Workers union walked out on strike. They were battling the Teamsters union over the right to represent farm workers. The dispute ended with victory for the UFW. [more]

16-04-1970 A white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler sacked him. 1,000 workers, white and black, walked out on strike in protest until management backed down. [more]

17-04-1944 Members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party. [more]

18-04-1941 After 4 weeks of a boycott, New York bus companies agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics [more]

21-04-1967 New York Governor Rockefeller signs the Taylor Law, allowing unions in the public sector, but banning strikes. [more]

21-04-1920 The Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing. [more]

21-04-1894 A nationwide strike of coal miners against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. [more]

24-04-1999 The ILWU halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. [more]