Michael Mishak

New coalition, backed by SEIU, leaves Culinary out

Its goal: Help organize gaming workers here and in Atlantic City. The AFL-CIO, the nation?s largest labor federation, and the Service Employees International Union, the nation?s largest union, announced Monday the creation of the Gaming Workers Council, a coalition of unions dedicated to organizing workers in the gaming industry.
 

His slice of the city, fading

Robert Moore unofficially presides over the site of the planned city hall. The residents of the
 

Rival unions’ reconciliation will be visible to valley nurses

After a yearlong battle to represent nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals, the Service Employees International Union and the California Nurses Association have reached a peace accord.
 

Culinary parent’s battles threaten national union federation COLLAPSE OF CHANGE TO WIN

In 2005, a group of leading unions, including Culinary parent organization Unite Here, changed the landscape of the American labor movement by breaking away from the AFL-CIO and forming its own labor federation, Change to Win.
 

A conflicted councilman

Ross should stop voting on projects that directly benefit members of his union. Before a vote Wednesday on plans to build a new city hall, Las Vegas Councilman Steve Ross told the audience he was the head of Southern Nevada Building and Construction Trades Council, a union group whose members will benefit if the project is built.