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Posts About Worker Rights
We are Station Casinos workers.
We are leading the fight to defend the Opportunity to Provide in Las Vegas.
We are leading the fight to make sure that no one is excluded from the Opportunity to Provide.
Join us in the fight for a better Las Vegas!
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For more information on the fight, go to: WorkerStation.org
Locals Support Station Workers. We stay out of Station Casinos.
For photos of community support all over Las Vegas, go here: http://on.fb.me/15s4d2w
Las Vegas Travel Alert has a Pinterest Board where lots of recent images, news about picket lines, and press covering the labor disputes in Las Vegas are pinned. Check it out here: http://pinterest.com/culinary226/las-vegas-travel-alert
Cortos Y Fuertes is a contest sponsored by the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor and UNITE HERE, the union of hotel and food service workers. The mission is to encourage young people across the country to share stories of immigrants in their lives. America was built on the hard work and ambition of immigrants, and Cortos Y Fuertes wants you to capture that ambition on video by telling your story.
Participants are tasked with creating videos that tell the story of your family, dreams and pride using handheld video cameras, smart phones, and whatever other equipment and software you own or have permission to use. We encourage you to investigate issues in your communities, within the boundaries of the law.
As our country is poised on the brink of moving forward on a path to citizenship for America’s eleven million undocumented immigrants, The CORTOS Y FUERTES / SHORT & STRONG student film competition will add the voices of young people, at their creative best, to this national dialogue.
These short student films will tell the stories of immigrants.
Stories of family, pride, hard work and dreams.
We welcome your voice, your film. CORTOS Y FUERTES / SHORT & STRONG is sponsored by labor unions — the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO and UNITE HERE – in collaboration with distinguished social justice activists and luminaries in the entertainment industry.
Submissions are due by September 20, 2013! More info here: http://www.shortandstrong.com
Why has the Culinary survived in Las Vegas?
Because the health of the Strip is dependent on the health of the union. And despite ebbs and flows for both, neither is likely to cease existing.
Our coalition of labor, community organizations, and faith leaders has joined forces in supporting three main principles:
1) A Pathway to Citizenship for aspiring American citizens.
2) Keeping our families together.
3) Defending workplace rights and improving standards for all workers.
Nevadans support immigration reform, and the Time is NOW for congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Join us!
If you would like to march with the Culinary Union wear a red shirt!
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LAS VEGAS MAY DAY COALITION GROUPS
Nevada State AFL-CIO,
Culinary Union 226,
Laborer's Union 872, LiUNA
Painter's Union District 15, IUPAT
United Steelworkers of Nevada, USW
Service Employees International Union Local 1107, SEIU
Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Union 162,
Mi Familia Vota, MFV
Nevada Alliance of Retired Americans, NARA
Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, PLAN
DREAM Big Vegas, DBV
National Council of La Raza, NCLR
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, APALA
Hermandad Mexicana Las Vegas
Immigration Reform for Nevada, IRN
National Federation of Filipino American Associations, NAFFAA,
Yo Soy 132,
Consejo Latino,
El Concilio Hispano,
MEChA de UNLV,
Hispanics in Politics;
Organizacion de Nayaritas en Las Vegas,
Federacion de Mexico D.F.,
Asociacion de los Mujeres Michoacanas,
Inmigrantes Trabajando Saldremos Adelante, ITSA
Club Juchitan de Guerrero,
Internacional Human Rights,
Unidos por la reforma
Si Se Puede,
Madres por la Justicia,
Station Casinos: Hear Thy Workers
God hears your workers' cries for Justice. All of our faith traditions support the rights of workers to freely organize or not without intimidation or coercion. We pray you soften your hearts, hear your workers, and agree to a fair process.
My babies are the main reason that I am involved with the union. When I came to the Cosmo two years ago I was given hope that with our union recognition would come a timely contract and the Culinary union health insurance… the best health insurance. My oldest son was born prematurely and with a blood disorder and my newest addition was born with a congenital defect.
We are all here for the same basic reasons and we are all making similar personal and economic sacrifices for this contract.
I will sacrifice anything today to provide for my family tomorrow.