Michael Mishak

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Toxic feud at SEIU’s top ends with resignations: Local’s two ranking leaders reach agreement amid union disorder; Saturday, June 28, 2008; The terms for the resignations of the top two leaders of one of Nevada’s largest unions were laid out over salad and breadsticks at a Las Vegas Olive Garden on Tuesday night.
Pointed plan for energy: McCain presents battery of proposals, including expanded nuclear power; Thursday, June 26, 2008; John McCain unveiled a comprehensive energy plan in a speech at UNLV on Wednesday that he said would allow the country to achieve “strategic energy independence” in the next 17 years. Perhaps most relevant to Nevadans is his proposal to expand nuclear power.
Obama gets ﬁrst jabs on Vegas’ ‘green’ turf: Wednesday, June 25, 2008; Barack Obama used a campaign speech on energy in Las Vegas on Tuesday to sully the “green” credentials of his Republican presidential rival, John McCain, who has been running ads in sunny Nevada boasting of his work on global warming.
Next target: UMC: With a California group’s bid to wrest nurses’ union representation at St. Rose hospitals from SEIU tied up, the union turns to University Medical Center, where SEIU has two years to go.; Tuesday, June 24, 2008; The California Nurses Association, unsuccessful so far in pushing aside the powerful SEIU as the preferred organizer of nurses in Southern Nevada, has set a new goal: to unseat the SEIU at University Medical Center.
Union turns down Imperial maids: Culinary loath to represent workers at possibly doomed hotel; Wednesday, June 18, 2008; Maids at Imperial Palace are fed up — and it’s not just because they say they’re being worked a lot harder than other housekeepers on the Strip. They’re angry at the Culinary Union for not coming to the rescue by organizing them.
Mandalay Bay guards vote against union: Organizer vows to object, citing agent’s bathroom break; Tuesday, June 17, 2008; With a good dose of election drama — including a ballot box being taken into a bathroom — a union seeking to organize Las Vegas security guards has lost its flagship campaign at Mandalay Bay.
Culinary stakes out its own political turf: Friday, June 13, 2008; Despite calls for unity at the Nevada AFL-CIO’s political convention this week, the state’s labor movement will not be speaking with one voice in November.
Unions’ pressure on Ross spurred CityCenter walkout: Sunday, June 8, 2008; The show of force was impressive. Nevada’s construction unions walked off job sites along the Strip on Monday, the first major project shutdown over safety in Las Vegas history. Union leaders said negotiations with the general contractor, Perini Building Co., had failed.
To win in Nevada, both have work to do: Caucus performances point to Obama, McCain weaknesses; Sunday, June 1, 2008; Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain all but tripped over each other last week as they crisscrossed Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada trading barbs and laying claim to a region that is changing from red to blue.
Organizer’s tactics test limits, even for workers: Some MGM Mirage guards object to pictures linking exec, bin Laden; Monday, May 19, 2008; A campaign to organize MGM Mirage security guards has turned ugly, with the union’s lead organizer comparing casino executives to terrorists and threatening to bring homeless people and prostitutes to the picket line to make things unpleasant for the company’s customers.