Good Jobs Now!
Let your voices be heard loud and clear.
Some candidates don't think it's their job to help create jobs. It's time for us to fight back.
1pm Thursday, September 9th Angle Protest Painters Hall 1701 Whitney Mesa Drive
6pm Sunday, September 12th Jobs Rally Clark County Government Center Amphitheater 500 S. Grand Central Parkway Las Vegas, NV
54th Annual Constitutional Convention
Luxor Hotel and Casino
August 18, 19, 20
For information call or email Sarina Riley
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or 702-413-5338.
Nevada State AFL-CIO 2010 Endorsed Candidates
Here are the lists for the Nevada State AFL-CIO 2010 Endorsed Candidates:
View the first list here.
View the second list here.
Early voting for the primary elections begin on May 22,2010 and end June 4, 2010. Get out and vote!
Captain's Meeting's Coming Up
Northern NV
September 15, 2010 &
October 19, 2010
10am - 12pm
Labor Temple
1819 Hymer Avenue
Southern NV
September 16, 2010 &
October 20, 2010 10am - 12pm
Nevada AFL-CIO
1891 Whitney Mesa Dr.
If you have any question please contact Sarina L. Riley at (702) 459-1414.
2010 Training Workshop: Political Organizing
WHEN
June 10, 2010
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
WHERE
Nevada State AFL-CIO
1891 Whitney Mesa
Henderson, NV 89014
WHO
Any Local Union Officers, Staff,
Stewards, and Activists are invited.
Each participant will receive a copy of the 2010 National AFL-CIO Political Activist Guide and a Certificate of Achievement for four hours of training. For more information, click here.
AFL-CIO Death on the Job Study Reveals Dangerous Workplaces, Inadequate Enforcement
Washington, April 27 — The nation's workplace safety laws and penalties are too weak to effectively protect workers, according to the new AFL-CIO annual report released today: Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect. As the country reels from the loss of the 29 miners at the Massey Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, the report shows that there were a total of 5,214 fatal workplace injuries in 2008. Because underreporting of workplace-related injuries and illness remains a persistent problem, the true toll is estimated to be as many as three times the 4.6 million reported incidents. Read more here.
Trapshoot Information
Join us for the 2010 Nevada State AFL-CIO Trapshoot! Proceeds benefit the Nevada AFL-CIO COPE Fund.
DATES:
February 21st — RENO
March 28th — LAS VEGAS
April 11th — RENO
May 16th — LAS VEGAS
June 13th — RENO/LAS VEGAS
Locations:
Clark County Shooting Park
11357 North Decatur Blvd
Las Vegas, NV 89124
702-455-2000
Sage Hill Sporting Clays
7370 Desert Way
Reno, NV 89521
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Record Wall Street Bonuses
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on Record Wall Street Bonuses
January 19, 2010 Hard-working Americans will not be ATMs for Wall Street.
Just a year ago, Wall Street banks pleaded for taxpayers to bail them out to save us all from financial disaster. We did. So now that banks and securities firms are on their feet again, whats their response?
A record $145 billion in executive bonuses for 2009a year when more than four
million Americans lost their jobs, largely because of the actions of these very institutions. That is simply unacceptable.
Hard-working Americans will not be ATMs for Wall Street. Today the AFL-CIO demands that Wall Street stop bankrupting America.
On September 28th, 2007 one of the Labor Movement in Nevada's most respected and honored leaders passed away.
Claude "Blackie" Evans was a pioneer in creating the modern labor movement in Nevada. He was a friend to every working family and a mentor to many of Nevada's labor and political figures. We honor him and his many accomplishments on behalf of Nevada's working families.
Blackie Evans was born in Joplin, Missouri on November 11, 1935 to Homer and Gertrude Evans. He was the oldest of three children.
In 1953, Blackie married his childhood sweetheart, Carolyn, and later they moved to Nevada where Blackie began a long and distinguished career.
Help our Teamsters to Put the Brakes on Unsafe Mexican Trucks
Despite strong Congressional disapproval, the Bush administration and Department of Transportation have announced their plans to move forward with the Mexican cross-border trucking pilot program very soon.
As a recent Transportation Department Inspector General audit report revealed, this dangerous pilot program still does not meet all the safety conditions required by Congress. The safety of millions of Americans traveling on U.S. highways will be put in danger if these unsafe Mexican trucks are allowed to cross the border.
In May, the House of Representatives passed HR 1773, the Safe American Roads Act of 2007, which blocks the program until safety measures are met. It passed 411-3. Today, the bill sits in a Senate committee.
Tell your Senators to act now and stop this pilot program until the DOT can assure your safety.
Reserve your commemorative coin today! Call Misti Pena at (702) 459-1414.
Support the Employee Free Choice Act!
America's working families are struggling to make ends meet and our middle class is disappearing. To get ahead, working people need the freedom to choose for themselves whether to join together in unions to bargain for better wages.
More than half of America's working people, 57 million, say they would join a union right ow if they could. But employers routinely block their ability to make this decision for themselves.
On September 28th, 2007 one of the Labor Movement in Nevada's most respected and honored leaders passed away.
