by Isabel Soisson | Nov 29, 2023 | INFRASTRUCTURE POLITICS, POLITICS
Before Al DeVita was a training director for the Northern Nevada Laborers’ apprenticeship program, he was just another kid from New Jersey trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. DeVita’s father died when he was nine years old, something that he says...
by Frank Alejandre | Nov 24, 2023 | COMMUNITY, LOCAL NEWS
Después de 7 meses de intensas negociaciones, y bajo una inminente amenaza de huelga, finalmente los trabajadores del sector hotelero ratificaron el nuevo contrato que les permitirá gozar de mejores salarios y seguridad laboral, entre otras cosas. Los sindicatos de...
by Associated Press | Nov 13, 2023 | MONEY and JOBS POLITICS, POLITICS
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Over seven months of tense negotiations, mandatory daily room cleanings underscored the big issues that Las Vegas union hotel workers were fighting to address in their first contracts since the pandemic: job security, better working conditions and...
by Kyle Kaminski | Nov 9, 2023 | NATIONAL POLITICS, POLITICS
Tentative agreements reached between the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and the Detroit Three automakers are “changing the face of the country,” President Joe Biden told auto workers at a soon-to-reopen automotive assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois on Thursday. ...
by Emilia Pablo | Sep 11, 2023 | LABOR POLITICS, POLITICS
The largest union in Nevada — the Culinary Workers Local 226 — is ready to strike, if they do not come to an agreement with some of the largest hotel and casino properties in Las Vegas. Some of the Las Vegas Strip hotel and casinos involved in the negotiation for a...
