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Protest downtown draws thousands of union workers
Las Vegas Sun ^ | Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 | 10:32 p.m. | By Brian Nordli (contact)

Posted on 10/14/2012 8:37:33 AM PDT by redreno

Beverly Hoffrichter’s voice is hoarse.

For eight hours Hoffrichter, a cocktail waitress at the D, was picketing outside the property with her fellow Culinary Union workers as part of a massive protest outside all nine downtown casinos Saturday. Hundreds came and went in shifts during the protest, but not Hoffrichter. She stayed.

Her scratchy voice was the result of hours chanting and shouting — a badge of honor in the larger fight for union workers to make their voices heard. The 3,500 Culinary Union members with jobs downtown were picketing to maintain health and retirement benefits in their contracts.

(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: nevada; strike; unions; vegas
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1 posted on 10/14/2012 8:37:41 AM PDT by redreno
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To: redreno

Las Vegas restaurants in hotels have some of the slowest, least enthusiastic table service I have ever seen.


2 posted on 10/14/2012 8:40:32 AM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: redreno

I thought all these union workers would be happy with obamaDOESN’Tcare


3 posted on 10/14/2012 8:42:12 AM PDT by Terry Mross
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To: redreno
... picketing to maintain health and retirement benefits in their contracts

Why?

Doesn't Obamacare cover everyone ... other than (of course) President, vice President, and Congress?

4 posted on 10/14/2012 8:42:58 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: redreno

The protesters signs say “No hay justicia, no hay paz”

Better would be “No dinero, no paz.” (No money, no peace.) That’s how unions operate in any language.


5 posted on 10/14/2012 8:43:40 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: redreno
The 3,500 Culinary Union members with jobs downtown were picketing to maintain health and retirement benefits in their contracts.

But..but...why? Their guy, the Messiah is providing FREE health care for all regardless of race,color, creed, national origin or legal status. Its like the cell phones. Its FREE. Why worry about it? Or is there something rotten that we mere mortals don't know about?

6 posted on 10/14/2012 8:45:45 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: married21

They all came to Vegas to be rich and famous. Instead, they are waiting on you, AND THEY HAVE A UNION....


7 posted on 10/14/2012 8:46:27 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: redreno
I've been to Vegas once...a long time ago.Even then I concluded that the city was nothing but a huge abscess on the rectum of this nation and that was *before* the commie unions arrived.It'll be a cold day in hell before I set foot in Nevada again.
8 posted on 10/14/2012 8:46:27 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: redreno

Were I emperor of the US for a day, among the the things on my list to do would be to stop all government agencies from holding meetings in Nevada, eliminate tax deductability of all expenses related to business travel/transactions in Nevada, and increase the tax rate on gambling winnings to 250%; then sit back and see how long Dingy Harry lasts.


9 posted on 10/14/2012 8:47:44 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Re-distribute my work ethic, not my wealth.)
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To: redreno
This is the picture from the article:


10 posted on 10/14/2012 8:49:14 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Pearls Before Swine
“No justice, no peace!”

That is a statement that threatens violence and murder if they do not get their way. It started during the Rodney King riot, and Maxine "Kerosene" Waters led the mobs in that chant.

She should have been arrested for inciting riots, but she wasn't.


11 posted on 10/14/2012 8:57:53 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Maxine Kerosene evokes that classic Fred Sanford line:

“I’d like to push your face into some dough, and make me some gorilla cookies!”


12 posted on 10/14/2012 9:13:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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To: redreno

Yes but didn’t Boy Bam poo poo taking vacations to Las Vegas?
These Unionistas voted Dem and let them enjoy the fruits of the Dem. Slow business, dwindling income and bennies being shifted to lower levels.
Who gives a rats patootie about their selfish antics? Scrooge em all.


13 posted on 10/14/2012 9:22:52 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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“The 3,500 Culinary Union members with jobs...”

IF I owned a casino, none of them would have jobs. There’s plenty of folks on unemployment who I could hire to replace their sorry butts.


14 posted on 10/14/2012 9:28:11 AM PDT by EDINVA (I)
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To: married21

You haven’t been to Fairbanks then. And yes, I’ve been to Vegas several times!


15 posted on 10/14/2012 9:44:22 AM PDT by vpintheak (Occupy your Brain!)
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To: redreno

Checking my “give a shiite” meter......nope, not a bit. As mrs. Øbozo sez, “let ‘em eat cake”.


16 posted on 10/14/2012 9:46:51 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks redreno.
17 posted on 10/14/2012 9:49:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: redreno

When did it become illegal to fire someone for joining a union? I ask because that would help identify laws that need to be repealed in order to put businesses and unions back on a level playing feild.


18 posted on 10/14/2012 9:55:57 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: EDINVA
IF I owned a casino, none of them would have jobs. There’s plenty of folks on unemployment who I could hire to replace their sorry butts.

This is exactly the reason that they get away with it. No balls from the employers so suffer the consequences.

19 posted on 10/14/2012 10:37:35 AM PDT by Digger (A)
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To: Gay State Conservative
It'll be a cold day in hell before I set foot in Nevada again.

Especially since the fine citizens of Nevada insist on sticking us with Dingy Harry.

20 posted on 10/14/2012 10:46:33 AM PDT by windsorknot
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