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Monday, December 11, 2006

Labor sees new day in Southern Nevada: Recent orchestration of hospital deal shows unions very much alive

Labor sees new day in Southern Nevada: Recent orchestration of hospital deal shows unions very much alive
Source: Las Vegas Sun
If there was any doubt about the resurgence of organized labor in Southern Nevada, it was erased last week when union leaders persuaded elected officials to broker a deal to get hospital nurses back to work. Even Republican Gov.-elect Jim Gibbons, a political foe of labor, sat down behind closed doors - with three union-friendly Democrats - to force management at Desert Springs Hospital and Valley Hospital Medical Center to return to collective bargaining after locking out the nurses.

 



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