Can We Give America a Raise?: Las Vegas As a Workers' Paradise. Harold Meyerson.
by Meyerson, Harold; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 47Business. Publisher: American Prospect, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Hotels | Labor union members | Labor unions | Las Vegas (Nev.) | Middle class | WagesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The hotel workers' union boosted wages and transformed dead-end jobs into middle-class careers in the very belly of the casino economy." (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article highlights the role that "Culinary Workers Local 226, the Las Vegas local of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) has played in the lives of its 48,000 members, their families and the city as a whole."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Can We Give America a Raise?: Las Vegas As a Workers' Paradise, Jan. 2004; pp. 38-41.
"The hotel workers' union boosted wages and transformed dead-end jobs into middle-class careers in the very belly of the casino economy." (AMERICAN PROSPECT) This article highlights the role that "Culinary Workers Local 226, the Las Vegas local of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE) has played in the lives of its 48,000 members, their families and the city as a whole."
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